The Evidence Pyramid provides a guide to levels of quality and the amount of research available at that level.
Bibliographic databases provide access to primary literature of all levels of the pyramid.
Point of Care Resources are secondary sources that bring together high-quality evidence to provide guidelines or recommendations for practice.
Walden University. (2020). Levels of evidence pyramid. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/library/healthevidence/evidencepyramid
The Medical Research Library of Brooklyn: SUNY Medical Center. (2014). The Evidence Pyramid. https://guides.downstate.edu/c.php?g=856794&p=6152125
PubMed is the free internet platform for searching over 37 million citations for biomedical literature from Medline, life science journals, and online books.
Embase is a subscription database from Elsevier that provides biomedicine literature. Embase contains journal articles, conference papers and abstracts and reports in biomedicine.
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences.
The world's most comprehensive full text source for sports, fitness, health and sports medicine literature.
A major source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology, from the APA and affiliates.
Abstract and citation database of peer reviewed literature in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Use Scopus metrics and analytical tools to identify authoritative research and experts.
A regularly updated collection of seven evidence-based medicine databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
A multidisciplinary, global citation database covering a broad range of subject areas including the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Useful for tracking where, by whom and how often an article has been cited.
UpToDate is an evidence-based clinical decision support tool, providing key clinical and drug information at point of care, synthesizing the latest evidence to recommend best practices for thousands of medical conditions.
Australian medicines information resource designed to help healthcare professionals make confident clinical decisions, providing access to latest drug monographs, pharmaceutical company product information, consumer medicine information documents, product summaries and drug product images.
Clinical decision support tool for health professionals, providing step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
Therapeutic Guidelines is an Australian evidence-based resource which recommends therapies for common disorders seen in clinical practice.
Concise, up-to-date source of independent drug information to facilitate effective, rational, safe, and economical prescribing and dispensing recommendations.
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