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  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Home Page
    [Free to all]
    United States. Department of Health and Human Services.
    Contents include: National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR); National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR); AHRQ Quality Indicators.
  • Cochrane Collaboration
    [Free to all]

    Cochrane Collagoration is international not-for-profit organization, providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care and its primary product is the "Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews" consisting primarily of reviews prepared by members of their Collaborative Review Groups such as Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group.
  • Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group (CEVG)

    CEVG is the Cochrane Collaboration Review Groups that prepares, maintain and promote access to systematic reviews of all the interventions used to prevent or treat eye diseases and/or visual impairment for inclusion in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
  • Cochrane Library
    [(Off-campus access for NEWENCO students, faculty and staff)]

    This is a source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Provides access to: the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews, Health Technology Assessment Database, and the NHS Economic Evaluations Database.
  • DARE: Database of abstracts of review of effects.
    Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
    DARE contains summaries of systematic reviews about the effects of interventions. Each summary also provides a critical commentary on the quality of the review.
  • Effects of omega-3 fatty acids on eye health
    Hodge, William.
    "July 2005."
  • Evidence-based eye care
    [Off-campus access available to NECO students, faculty and staff.]
    Kertes, Peter J.

  • Evidence-Based practice tools summary

    A nice review of Cochrane, PubMed clinical queries and many of the other tools availble to clinicians.
  • Eyes and vision specialist library (EVSL)

    UK site provides a searchable index to the following:Clinical Evidence, Health Technology Assessment reports, NICE guidelines, National Service Frameworks, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination abstracts, the Cochrane Library, Prodigy; and professional body publications. Open to all UK practictioners but some links are not accessible to NECO.
  • ICO International Clinical Guidelines
    [Free to all]
    International Council of Ophthalmology.
    Provides evidence-based ophthalmology clinical guidelines and other international resources for evidence-based practice, including information on research and standards.
  • National Quality Measures Clearinghouse.
    [Free to all]
    United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
    Includes "Structured, standardized abstracts (summaries) containing information about measures and their development; A utility for comparing attributes of two or more quality measures in a side-by-side comparison; Links to full-text quality measures (when available) and/or ordering details for the full measure."
  • Trip Database : Turning research into practice
    [Off-campus access available to NEWENCO students, faculty and staff.]

    Evidence-based medicine database developed to enable health professionals to find answers to clinical questions.
  • Users' guides to evidence based practice

    Includes the complete set of Users' Guides originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). "Evidence-based medicine requires new skills of the physician, including efficient literature-searching, and the application of formal rules of evidence in evaluating the clinical literature."

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