Abstract
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) helps to bridge the gap between current healthcare practice and recent research findings in health care. Today’s era of scientific information explosion makes hard for healthcare providers to remain up to date on the best clinical practices. In reality, a physician has to read 17 scientific literature works per day to remain up to date. This is a difficult challenge, but EBM databases provide quick access to research findings. This review aims to provide an overview of EBM databases. These databases provide information about guidelines, disease, treatment,diagnosis, clinical relevance, systematic reviews, clinical trials, observational studies, preappraised information,summary, abstract, full text, similar studies, short reports, clinical queries, images, e-textbooks, patient counseling information, and continuous medical education in a minimum period of time. The identification and utilization of recent research findings is a critical step to enhance patient care and clinical practice. This review provides an insight into various EBM databases, type of evidence, access details, and link to each database. Establishing educational requirements and awareness in the practice of EBM among healthcare professionals is a great step for promoting the practice of EBM
Highlights
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has originated as a paradigm shift in clinical practice to reduce the gap between current practice and recent research findings in a particular area among healthcare professionals to enhance the quality of patient care (Sackett et al, 1996)
Overload of healthcare information presents a challenging task among healthcare professionals to recognize information from valid resources/studies and translate those information at the point of patient care
EBM databases provide a platform to make this search easy and accessible at the point of clinical decision-making by providing information about research, education, and patient care
Summary
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has originated as a paradigm shift in clinical practice to reduce the gap between current practice and recent research findings in a particular area among healthcare professionals to enhance the quality of patient care (Sackett et al, 1996). It integrates recent research findings with the expertise of practitioners along with considering patient preferences and values (Kamath and Guyatt, 2016; Seshia et al, 2013). Overload of healthcare information presents a challenging task among healthcare professionals to recognize information from valid resources/studies and translate those information at the point of patient care. Technology has advanced in such a way that accesses to a huge volume of data from multiple resources worldwide (Bastian et al, 2010; Ruano et al, 2018; Subramanyam, 2013)
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