PubMed Health and Clinical Effectiveness

PubMed Health can be a wonderful utility for Physicians and Clinicians in terms of finding evidence-based practice and comparative effectiveness for interventions at the point-of-care.  [Please note : PubMed Health is different from PubMed Medline.]

Clinical effectiveness research show us “what works” in medicine and health care.    For example, does a given intervention relieve symptoms, or shorten recovery time, or extend life?

Some other terms for this type of research are patient-relevant outcomes, or health technology assessments, or evidence synthesis, or comparative effectiveness reviews. 

   
The whole purpose of PubMed Health is:

1)      to help people find systematic reviews on treatment interventions, and
2)      to understand what they find.  

The PubMed Health Collection consists of :

•       40,000 systematic reviews since 2003 (including Cochrane Reviews)
•       Over 6,000 consumer versions
•     1,000 EBP Clinical Guides [articles] for consumers and clinicians
•     2,000 PubMed Health Glossary entries

To that end, PubMed Health is geared more towards  “public” (rather than professional) searchers; for example,  it works more with keywords and brand names for drugs than MESH. 

You’ll find a link to PubMed Health on the Physician & Provider Tool Box.  Check the right side, in the box “If you only have 5 minutes.”

Read more at :
Article on finding Systematic Reviews in PMH
About Clinical Effectiveness Research

Webinar: Finding Systematic Reviews at PubMed Health and PubMed

A recording of the Webinar is available. [About 21 min.] Join Hilda Bastian for a brief instructional Webinar on finding systematic reviews using PubMed Health and PubMed. This is a free Webinar from the NLM Training Office.