2. What is The Cochrane Library World’s most comprehensive source for evidence-based health care Collection of high quality, E-B databases Provides systematically derived, reliable indications as to whether or not a particular treatment/intervention is more effective than another – considering side-effects, benefits

4. Click on Health DB

12. Systematic Reviews Identifies an intervention for specific disease/problem Determines whether/not intervention works Locate, appraise, synthesise evidence from as many studies as possible Summarise conclusions, provide a collation of evidence on the given topic

13. Systematic Reviews (2) Differ from other types of review: Adhere to strict design to make them more comprehensive Minimising chance of bias, ensuring reliability

14. Searching Systematic Reviews MeSH Search in Title Advanced Search

16. Mesh Search Click on Thesaurus

17. Thesaurus: Controlled terminology Click on the word “Hypertension”

18. Mesh Trees Click here to see what other terms you may wish to use

19. Mesh Tree

20. Scroll to top of page : choose term only OR Explode term

21. Can also use “Qualifier” which links to your main term

25. Comes back to this page with the correct term – then click on Mesh trees

27. Click on “Go”

28. To Combine your terms Click on “Search History”

29. Search History

32. Search Results

33. Click on “Record”

34. Click on the links to go to browse sub-headings of article

37. Graphs

38. Full text article – To Print Click on PDF

44. Clinical Evidence

45. How Clinical Evidence is put together Selecting topics: common/important clinical conditions Selecting questions: concerning the benefits/harms of preventative & therapeutic interventions Searching, appraising the literature: Cochrane, Medline etc for systematic reviews Summarise evidence, peer reviewed, edit to compile topics

46. Summary Page Presents the questions addressed, key messages and a list of interventions covered and categorised according to effectiveness