Cochrane Library database is now available
Cochrane Library database is now available
We are pleased to inform you that the Cochrane Library database is now available at Al Maktoum Medical Library. Database is accessible to everyone on campus, remote access to the resource is limited to registered members of the library.
About Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.The Cochrane Library provides practitioners with protocols, systematic reviews, abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and clinical trials abstracts, ensuring they have the most up-to-date, independent, and assessed healthcare information at their fingertips.
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews – +8000 Reviews | +2400 Protocols
- Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) – +1.5 million articles
- Cochrane Clinical Answers (+2000)
- Systematic Reviews from Epistemonikos(+380000)
- Editorials (+120)
- Special Collections (+20)
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- Each review addresses a clearly formulated question e.g. Can antibiotics alleviate the symptoms of a sore throat?
- Investigates the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in a healthcare setting.
- Reviewed using stringent guidelines to establish whether or not there is conclusive evidence about a specific treatment.
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
- World’s largest database of Randomized Controlled Trials.
- Includes details of published articles taken direct from bibliographic databases and other published resources.
- The records include the title of the article, information on where it was published and in many cases, the abstract.
- The full text of these articles is not available as part of the Cochrane Library.
Cochrane Clinical Answers
- Clinical summaries on a question and answer format from Cochrane Reviews.
- Provide the evidence at hand on key outcomes.
- Make the information a clinician will be most interested in more accessible.
- Aim is to use information from Cochrane Reviews to inform healthcare decisions.
Epistemonikos
- World’s largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health decision-making.
- Uses a comprehensive and systematic approach, powered by artificial intelligence and curated and annotated by experts.
