The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York has announced a partnership with PubMed Health. PubMed Health is a new online service provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). The service provides summaries and full text of selected systematic reviews and also provides information for consumers and clinicians based on those reviews.
Systematic reviews are widely recognised as reliable sources of information about the effects of healthcare interventions. But as with individual research studies, they can be hard to find, may have flaws and can be difficult to interpret. Since 1994, CRD has been producing and maintaining DARE, a database which uniquely provides access to over 11,000 abstracts of quality assessed and critically appraised systematic reviews. The new partnership involves CRD providing DARE content to PubMed Health.
Produced by CRD, DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects) focuses on systematic reviews that evaluate the effects of healthcare interventions and the delivery and organisation of health services. The database also includes reviews of the wider determinants of health such as housing, transport, and social care where these impact directly on health, or have the potential to impact on health.
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