Full-Text Reviews of Treatment Protocols
The Cochrane Database of Systematic
Reviews [CDSR] provides full-text meta-analyses
of the evidence gathered from controlled clinical trials worldwide.
Its growing collection of systematic reviews of the effects
of healthcare now covers more than 400 treatment protocols.
Most of the completed reviews are found in the areas of pregnancy,
childbirth, and stroke. Joseph Lau MD, co-director of the
New England Cochrane Center,
edited the review, "Antihypertensive Drug Therapy in the Elderly."
See the Ovid
Technologies Field Guide for more information about the
database. To learn about the Cochrane methodology, you may
email Joseph.Lau@tufts-nemc.org or consult the Cochrane
Website at McMaster University.
The CSDR contains protocols for future reviews as well as completed
reviews, which are updated periodically by the groups responsible
for them.
You can limit keyword searches in ACP Journal
Club to Therapeutics, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Etiology,
or EBM Trends. Ovid's MEDLINE records, furthermore, will show
an Article Review link whenever the article has been reviewed
in ACP Journal Club and Topic Review for CDSR records
linked to the article.
Finding Citations to Reviews on a Subject
Ovid MEDLINE will limit any set of results to review articles if
you click in the Review box beneath the entry box. MEDLINE,
however, indexes review articles more finely with the following Publication
Types, which may be selected from Ovid's limit screen by clicking
on the bull's-eye icon at the top of its Main Search Page:
- Consensus Development Conference, NIH
- Meta Analysis
- Review
- Review Literature
- Review of Reported Cases
- Review, Academic
- Review, Multicase
- Review, Tutorial
- Scientific Integrity Review
Finding Journals The Ovid databases
show in the Local Holdings field whether or not Tufts
libraries subscribe to an article's Source (journal).
The Hirsh Health SciencesLibrary subcribes not only to journals
containing reviews but also to review journals (e.g., Annual
Review of Biochemistry and Methods in Enzymology).
Ovid citations to review journals shelved on our fifth floor
will have a Local Holdings message saying Book Collection:
Check Catalog. One may ascertain their call numbers in
several ways:
- Search the Tufts
Libraries Catalog by entering the first few words of
the full title (listed under Source on Ovid) and
clicking on the left-hand Title button.
- Search the
Tufts Libraries Catalog for individually catalogued
journals, by combining the volume number with keywords from
the Source field. For example, you might enter Annals
and York Academy and 678, then click on Keyword
to find Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
v. 678.
Reviews in sources not held at HHSL can often be photocopied
at nearby libraries. Ask at the Library Service Desk for information
on holdings at other libraries or search the institution's
online library catalog or the Harvard libraries online
catalog.
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