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Pharmacy and Pharmacology: Evidence-based practice

UK resources

NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries
Practical, evidence-based guides to conditions managed in primary care.
NICE Evidence Search
Access to selected resources in health, social care and public health.

Scotland

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)
Produces clinical guidelines for the NHS in Scotland
Scottish Medicines Consortium
Gives advice to NHS in Scotland about newly licensed medicines.

Wales

All Wales Medicines Strategy Group
Gives advice on medicines management and prescribing to the Welsh government.
Welsh Medicines Resource Centre (WeMeReC)
Prescribing information and advice.

Systematic reviews

Cochrane Library
A collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, including systematic reviews.

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)
Search across the following: Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Affects (DARE), Healthcare Technology Assessments (HTA) and NHS Economic Evaluation Database (EED) - provided by University of York

PROSPERO
Prospectively registered systematic reviews.
TRIP
Evidence-based information, ongoing systematic reviews, clinical guidelines, regulatory guidance, case reports, articles, synopses, ebooks and an overdiagnosis filter

University of Bath Library Systematic Reviews Guide
Advice on doing a systematic review: how to formulate a question, write a protocol, search literature, manage references, select studies, assess evidence and write-up.

Health topics in the news

Behind the Headlines
The science behind the news, from the NHS.
Research the Headlines
A series of Blog posts about how research is portrayed in the media.

Last Updated: May 22, 2020 4:00 PM
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Subjects: Pharmacy & Pharmacology