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Trip
database Cochrane
Library Centre for Evidence
Based Medicine
in Oxford Netting
the
Evidence Evidence based mental health journal - a quarterly journal published by the BMJ of selected articles already critically appraised. A great resource for registrars trying to keep up ot date with the literature across the broad range of mental health topics.
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Centre
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Evidence Based Mental Health Care
Recently updated site from Oxford in the UK which conatins material specific to mental health issues.
New Zealand
Guidelines Group
Excellent
site dedicated to New Zealand specific guidelines - also has
some useful patient information publications. Surprisingly large amount
of mental health guidelines although some getting a bit dated.
PuBMed this is one of the many gateways to Medline which
contains over 8 million articles so finding what is relevant to
you and
your patients can be a problem.
Note that there are some peculiarities with searching for mental health
topics - for instance depression is not the same as depressive
disorders. Depression is "Depressive states usually of moderate
intensity in contrast with major depression present in neurotic and
psychotic disorders" and is classified under "Behavioral
Symptoms" whereas Depressive Disorders are defined as "An affective
disorder manifested by either a dysphoric mood or loss of
interest or pleasure in usual activities. The mood disturbance is
prominent and relatively persistent" and is defined under mood
disorders. So searching on depression will find different articles to
searching under depressive disorders. One of the many quirks of the
Medline indexing system....
With any electronic database of the medical literature it is best to
learn one gateway and get familiar with it. In the case of PubMed one
of the best features is the Clinical
Queries on the left hand side bar which gives access to
preloaded search strategies. A PubMed tutorial is here.
PubCrawler It goes to the library. You go to the
pub.™ funnily
enough an Irish site which provides regular searches
(which
you can define and decide how often they are sent to you) of
PubMed and GenBank. Have to sign up for the name alone....
Equator web page an initiative to improve the quality of reporting health research. Easy access to the CONSORT statement and other resources useful to medical authors
In 2004 I wrote a book with Rob Butler and Mark Oakley Browne on
Evidence Based Mental Health Care. The aim was to introduce evidence
based medicine ideas to a mental health audience. To
order this book click here