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EvidenceAlerts

About This Site

EvidenceAlerts is a continuously updated repository of current best evidence from research to support evidence-based clinical decisions.

All articles from 135 premier clinical journals are pre-rated for quality by highly trained research staff, then rated for clinical relevance and interest by at least 3 members of a worldwide panel of practicing physicians. Only the strongest studies and systematic reviews are selected for EvidenceAlerts; less than 1 in 10 published articles makes the grade.

EvidenceAlerts does not cover basic science, and is providing clinically relevant new evidence to practicing physicians more than a comprehensive literature database for researchers.

What are the features of EvidenceAlerts?

The current features of EvidenceAlerts include:

Selection of articles by expert research staff and front-line clinicians concerning the cause, course, diagnosis, prediction, prevention, treatment, quality improvement and health economics of health problems.
E-mail alerts about new evidence. Each alert includes McMaster Online Rating of Evidence (MORE^TM) clinical ratings and comments, and electronic links to the article's abstract via PubMed (if available) and fulltext article via PubMed or the publisher's site (if available for free)
A cumulative searchable database of articles that is continuously updated (from mid-2003 forward)
A search interface to access relevant information in the accumulating database
Evidence-based search strategies for MEDLINE to supplement searches in the cumulated PLUS database when needed
Download options for citation management
Links to evidence-based resources

What do the clinical ratings in EvidenceAlerts mean?

The current features of PLUS include:

Systematic review of 135 journals (including all Cochrane reviews) with selection of articles by expert research staff concerning the cause, course, diagnosis, prediction, prevention, treatment, quality improvement and health economics of health problems according to explicit criteria, with high reproducibility and periodic quality assurance checks*
Ratings of each eligible article for clinical relevance and newsworthiness by at least 3 practitioners for each discipline for which the article might be pertinent

* Wilczynski NL, McKibbon KA, Haynes RB. Enhancing retrieval of best evidence for health care from bibliographic databases: calibration of the hand search of the literature. Medinfo. 2001;10(Pt 1):390-3.