Access to the Cochrane Library
 

The Cochrane library is a key tool for evidence-based practice.

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews is unlike other medical/health databases. It consists of systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials, where teams of reviewers have examined the best available evidence on particular healthcare interventions. It is updated every month. It contains full text of 4,125 completed reviews and 1,924 protocols on a range of health subjects (2010 issue 1). The Cochrane Library also contains abstracts of other completed reviews (DARE), a central register of controlled trials (Central), the Health Technology Assessment Database and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database.

This page also links to a brief tutorial on searching databases. The general principles can be applied to searching the Cochrane Library.

Please note that connecting to any of these sites will take you away from the Archway Healthcare Library page. You will be able to return by using the back button on the browser toolbar (top left of screen).

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database searching tutorial

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