Online evidence databases can provide access to high quality evidence at the point of care, making evidence-based practice more achievable.
Silagy CA, Weller DP, Middleton PF, et al. General practitioners' use of evidence databases.
Evidence databases, specialized search engines, and website portals are available to help therapists' access evidence more easily.
STRING integrates protein-protein interaction data from both experimental evidence databases (such as BIND, DIP and MINT) as well as inferred protein-protein interactions obtained by using de novo prediction tools (such as Predictome), or functional grouping databases (such as Reactome or KEGG).
The Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) is a free, web-based database of reports of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
Eight databases, including Cochrane Library, ProQuest, PubMed, EMBASE, EBSCO, Web of Science, Ovid Medline and Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro), were searched up to January 2017.
To quantify the relationship between the number of times articles are accessed on the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) and the article characteristics.
Two authors searched PubMed, PsycINFO, EMBASE, Web of Science, Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro), and the Cochrane Library considering RCTs published from July 1 , 2011 October 1 , 2014
To evaluate the convergent and construct validity of the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scale used to rate the methodological quality of randomized trials in physiotherapy.
The literature search included databases of CINAHL, MEDLINE, AMED, AMI, and SPORT DISCUS, the Cochrane Library, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro), the National Library of Medicine (PubMed), Factiva, the EBSCOT HOST Research Database, online journal databases of ELSEVIER Science periodicals, LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, ELSEVIER Science @ Direct, THIEME ONLINE, and BLACKWELL SYNERGY.
Quality of the RCTs (Table 2) was assessed by examining the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scale (www.pedro.org.au) which assesses the RCT on 10 criteria including random allocation, concealed allocation, and blinding of subjects, therapists, and assessors.
