Transcript Table of Contents – Part B • HINARI Resources – Clinical Evidence – Cochrane Library – EBM Guidelines – Essential Evidence Plus – HINARI EBM Journals.

Table of Contents – Part B
• HINARI Resources
– Clinical Evidence
– Cochrane Library
– EBM Guidelines
– Essential Evidence Plus
– HINARI EBM Journals
If you are interested in learning more about EBM, go
to the online tutorial Introduction to Evidence-Based
Medicine from the Health Sciences Library, University
of North Carolina (USA):
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/ebm/welcome.htm
To access the HINARI Evidence-based
Medicine resources, we must Login to
the HINARI website using the URL
http://www.who.int/hinari/
You need to enter your HINARI User Name and Password in the
appropriate boxes, then click on the Login button. To have
access to the full text articles, you must properly sign in.
If you do not use the Internet Explorer Web browser, this slide
will not appear (as of 01 April 2014). If you use Internet
Explorer, you will continue to have a two-step login process.
Repeat the Login process on this
2nd page and you will be redirected
to the HINARI Contents page.
Remember - If you fail to use the Login
page, you will have a second option on
the Content page and we will open the
Reference Sources page.
From the Reference Sources A-Z list, we now will
click on the Cochrane Library link. The Cochrane
Library contains high-quality, independent
evidence including reliable evidence from
Cochrane and other systematic reviews and
clinical trials. It is published by John Wiley.
Note the full-text reviews are available to Band 1
only while Abstracts can be accessed by all users.
The Cochrane Library
COCHRANE LIBRARY : The Cochrane Collaboration.
Oxford: Update Software;
1996-. Updated quarterly.
• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
– High-quality pre-evaluated systematic reviews from
all over the world
– International, not-for-profit organization
– Complete reviews and protocols (reviews that are
still in progress)
– CDSR abstracts are in Medline but there is no link to
full-text of the review
Note: As of April 2013, the Cochrane Libraries is
available to all Group A & Group B institutions.
The initial page of this site has a title,
abstract or keyword option Search engine.
You also can Browse Cochrane Database
by broad subject heading . The initial page
also highlights New and Updated
Cochrane Reviews. We will go to the
Advanced Search.
Also from the initial page, there is a link to
the Cochrane Journal Club.
We have opened the Advanced Search option where you
can specify search fields and have the ability to combine
terms using AND/OR/NOT operators.
In this text Advanced Search, we have combined
diarrhea child* using the Search All Text option with the
wildcard (*) used to locate the terms child and children.
Note that you also can complete a MeSH Search, look at
your Search History or Saved Searches.
The Advanced Search results for diarrhea child*
has retrieved 451 records from the Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews. You have the
option to Export All Results (save).
Note: if the results of your search are too many,
you can narrow it by limiting the keyword search
to Title instead of Search All Text.
The screen displays the Abstract of the first
systematic review listed in the search - Oral
zinc for treating diarrhoea in children.
To access the full-text review, click on the Full
PDF hypertext link in the left column. Other
options are Summary and Standard.
Also note the hypertext links to specific
sections of the systematic review.
We have displayed the Abstract of the
systematic review that includes the
Background, Objectives, Search strategy,
Selection criteria, Data collection and
analysis and Main Results.
The final section of the Abstract is titled Plain
language summary. This section is useful for
disseminating the results to groups of health
workers and patients.
Also note the Main results and author’s
conclusions (the ‘bottom line’) as these
sections discuss the review’s results and how
they should be used.
We have displayed the PDF Full version of
the Oral zinc for treating diarrhoea in children
systematic review. Other options include
Summary and Standard files.
Note: The url that contains http://hinarigw.who.int/whalecom... shows that we have
logged in to HINARI properly and will have
access to the full-text version of this review.
From the Advanced Search page of the Cochrane
Library, we have clicked on the Cochrane Reviews:
By Topic hyperlink. This has displayed the Topics for
Cochrane Reviews. From this extensive list, you have
another option for locating subject- specific material.
Note that there are other search lists including an A-Z
list, Updated Reviews and New Reviews.
For more training material, you can click on
The Cochrane Library Help hyperlink. We
have opened the Search Manual. Another
option is a listing of Web Updates.
We now access the third Reference
Sources option for evidence-based
health information - EBM Guidelines.
From the Reference Sources list, we have
opened the initial page of EBM Guidelines
Evidence-Based Medicine. Also published by
John Wiley, this resource is a collection of
clinical guidelines for primary care combined
with evidence-based research.
You can Search by keyword or Browse
database contents by EBM Guidelines,
Evidence summaries, Pictures, Audio samples,
Videos and Programs.
We have completed a keyword search for Influenza. The
results page includes summaries of the key issues
including Related resources and References and links to
important websites.
Also included are links to the Evidence summaries.
We have displayed the first Evidence summary.
Each link contains a brief review of the study and
notes the reference(s).
From the Reference Sources list, we
have opened the initial page of Essential
Evidence Plus. Also published by John
Wiley, it includes access to Cochrane
Library and also a series of databases
and tools to access the EBM material.
By keyword, you can Search all or some
of the databases.
We have opened the EBMG
evidence summaries database
that, via broad subject categories,
has access to 4312 articles.
We have opened the initial page of
EBMG evidence summaries listing
for Infectious disease. Material is
listed by either a summary view or
expanded view that includes a
sentence describing each entry.
We have opened the (PatientOriented Evidence that Matters
listing) POEMs research
summaries database that, has
4500+ articles and is organized
by Date or Category.
From the Reference Sources list, we have
opened the initial page of EBM Guidelines
Evidence-Based Medicine. Also published by
John Wiley, this resource is a collection of
clinical guidelines for primary care combined
with evidence-based research.
You can Search by keyword or Browse
database contents by EBM Guidelines,
Evidence summaries, Pictures, Audio samples,
Videos and Programs.
HINARI Evidence-Based Journals
(other journals may have EBM articles)
We have browsed the ‘E’ in the HINARI Find journals by title
list and it notes several journals for evidence-based practice.