Updates within BMJ Clinical Evidence
Updates is a service made available by the BMJ Publishing Group that incorporates the McMaster PLUS email surveillance system to collect and review the best evidence from the medical literature published since the last BMJ Clinical Evidence systematic search for a given review. Updates is a new feature to the BMJ Clinical Evidence electronic product suite.
Users of Updates with interests in a specific clinical problem or treatment are also invited to use BMJUpdates+ (www.bmjupdates.com), an openly accessible service, to look up topics covered in the McMaster PLUS database published as far back as 2002.
Updates based on the following processes conducted by McMaster PLUS:
- systematic review of over 120 journals (including quarterly updates of the Cochrane Library) with selection of articles by expert research staff concerning the cause, course, diagnosis, prediction, prevention, and treatment of health problems, quality improvement and health economics, according to explicit criteria, with high reproducibility and periodic quality assurance checks.[1]
- ratings of each eligible article for clinical relevance and newsworthiness by at least 3 practitioners for each discipline for which the article might be pertinent. The McMaster Online Rating of Evidence (MORE) rating panel has >3000 participants from around the world, all in clinical practice, with about half in primary care, and the rest in internal medicine and its specialties, pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics, gynecology, and surgery.
- e-mail alerts about new evidence. Each alert includes MORE clinical ratings and comments, and electronic links to the article's abstract via PubMed (if available) and fulltext article via PubMed or the publisher's site (if available for free).
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Updated: 14 November 2006