Evidence-Based Dentistry
Databases
Meta-Search Products
SUMSearch selects the best resources for your question, formats it for each resources, and makes additional searches based on results. Available in English, French, and Spanish language versions. Produced by the Kansas University Medical Center.
TRIP Database
TRIP is a free resource which requires registration to use. It is a clinical resource, available in multiple languages. The database formats your question for searching against a number of databases, simultaneously.
Filtered Products
ADA Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry
Contains links to scientific information, such as systematic reviews and summaries, as well as clinical recommendations.
The Cochrane Library includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, methods studies, technology assessments, and economic evaluations. Cochrane reviews are recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based health care. The default in this resources is to search the entire Cochrane Library. To search individual databases within it, users should click on “Advanced Search,” located in the upper left corner of the resource’s Home page. Additionally, users will find links to each specific database under the “Browse” section of the Home page.
Evidence-Based Endodontics Literature Database
University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry
Contains both a basic and an advanced search mode. Citations are ranked according to the strength of the evidence contained therein. The database is built on PubMed and contains links to full-text articles in the upper right corner of the page.
Unfiltered Products
This menu-driven search engine runs against the PubMed interface and is very similar to the “Clinical Queries” feature in PubMed. One advantage is that it is searching an already smaller subset of PubMed, the Index to Dental Literture section. Links to full-text articles are available. It also contains a link to the MeSH Browser and some hints for more effective searching.
This is essentially PubMed with a different search engine; it provides access to the same journal information.
PubMed, produced by the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 21 million citations to journal articles in the biomedical literature. Links to many full-text articles are available. PubMed also contains a “Clinical Queries” feature which allows users to perform searches for specific study types or systematic reviews with ease. A mobile version of the product is also available, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/. PubMed on Tap, http://www.referencesontap.com/, is located at the App Store.
This resource includes citations from the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index. It gives users the unique ability to track who is citing a specific author by performing a cited reference search.