Search the Library's catalog for textbooks or use point-of-care resources to answer background questions.
This medical search engine works a little like Google. It includes medical and surgical reference books, access to journals/articles, procedural content and videos, point-of-care summaries, drug info, and access to MEDLINE. Includes images and videos too.
Use these databases to perform literature searches and find articles.
Embase is a biomedical database that focuses on drugs and pharmacology, medical devices, clinical medicine, and basic science relevant to clinical medicine. It provides access to bibliographic citations to more than 8,500 biomedical journal articles from over 95 countries. It also contains over 2.4 million conference abstracts indexed from more than 7,000 conferences dating from 2009 to the present, and full-text indexing of drug, disease, and medical device data. It has especially strong coverage on drug trials. Over 1.5 million records are added yearly, with an average of over 6,000 each day.
Scopus is an abstract and citation database that indexes content from more than 25,000 active titles and 7,000 publishers—all rigorously vetted and selected by an independent review board.
The levels of evidence pyramid provides a way to visualize both the quality of evidence and the amount of evidence available. Evidence is broken down into three categories: Critical Appraisal (filtered), Experimental & Observational Studies (unfiltered), and Background Information. As you go down the pyramid, the amount of evidence increases as the quality of the evidence decreases.
Download Zotero and the Zotero connector for your web browser, then use the instructions below to customize your settings by opening preferences in menu bar under Zotero in Mac and Edit in PC.
To connect Zotero with UVA ejournals, click on custom, select North America, and then University of Virginia.
Covidence is officially here! Click here to sign up for access via our institutional account.
Covidence is a user-friendly review management system that streamlines review processes. Whether you’re doing a literature review or undertaking a systematic review, Covidence can help and we’ll be glad to support you through the process.
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