Library & Information Services
Bandolier
Bandolier is a source of evidence based healthcare information for health professionals, patients and their carers, as well as for organisations that commission and pay for healthcare. Information comes from systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomised trials, and from high quality observational studies.
Cochrane Library
Reliable, high quality independent evidence to inform healthcare decisionmaking by people providing and receiving care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels. Evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, methods studies, technology assessments and economic evaluations.
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
DARE contains summaries of systematic reviews which have met strict quality criteria. Included reviews have to be about the effects of interventions. Each summary also provides a critical commentary on the quality of the review. The database covers a broad range of health and social care topics and can be used for answering questions about the effects of interventions, as well as for developing guidelines and policy making.
NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED)
NHS EED has been funded by the Departments of Health of England and Wales to assist decision-makers by systematically identifying and describing economic evaluations, appraising their quality and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses.
OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of sytematic reviews and randomised control trials relevant to occupational therapy. Trials have been critically appraised and rated to assist you to evaluate their validity and interpretability.
PEDro
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised control trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
Research Findings Register (REFER)
The Research Findings electronic Register (ReFeR) is a database of the findings of research studies funded by the Department of Health. ReFeR provides access to research findings in the gap between research completion and publication. Indeed, some research may never be formally published.
TRIP
TRIP - Turning Research into Practice. This database allows clinical questions to be answered easily and rapidly, by identifying the highest quality evidence-based material available on the web.
UpToDate
A specifically medical resource, this is easy-to-search, very comprehensive, and evidence-based. There is a quick link to UpToDate from the Trust Intranet homepage. We are not, however, able to make it available to users from home via the Internet, due to the licence restrictions. Please contact the library if you are a member of staff and would like assistance to access this extremely useful resource.
