HTA Reports
The National Academies Press – Medical Technologies and Treatments
The National Academies Press publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics including books in Medical Technologies and Treatments.
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination Database
The University of York Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) is a research department that specializes in evidence synthesis, assembling and analyzing data from multiple research studies to generate policy-relevant research. The database provides access to the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) with over 35,000 systematic reviews, the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) with over 17,000 economic evaluations of health and social care interventions and the HTA database with over 15,000 summaries of completed and ongoing health technology assessments.
Health Technology Assessment Journal
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) publishes research information on the effectiveness, costs and broader impact of health technologies for those who use, manage and provide care in the NHS.
IQWiG – Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care
Located in Germany, The Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) is an independent scientific institute that examines the benefits and harms of medical interventions for patients.
PDQ-Evidence
PDQ-evidence includes systematic reviews, overviews of reviews, primary studies included in systematic reviews and structured summaries of that evidence to facilitate rapid access to the best available evidence.
BMJ – Statistics at Square One
Statistics tutorial from the British Medical Journal.
BMJ – Epidemiology for the uninitiated
British Medical Journal series of articles explaining the basics in Epidemiology.
The Effective Health Care Program – Search for Research Summaries, Reviews, and Reports
The Effective Health Care Program funds individual researchers, research centers, and academic organizations to work together with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to produce comparative effectiveness reviews for clinicians, consumers, and policymakers.
HTA Database Canadian Search Interface
Health technology assessment (HTA) producers from Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and the pan-Canadian agency CADTH have partnered with the National Institute for Health Research's Centre for Reviews and Dissemination to create a shared repository and search tool.
WHO Global Health Library
The objective of the Global Health Library (GHL) is to increase access to information and scientific evidence on health, particularly in developing regions. It provides universal access to biomedical and public health literature from global and regional resources on a central search platform.
CADTH – Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) provides healthcare decision-makers with objective evidence and recommendations to help make informed decisions about the optimal use of health technologies, including prescription drugs, diagnostic tests, devices, and procedures.
CADTH – Finding the Evidence
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) series of tools and tutorials to help conduct literature searches for systematic reviews and health technology assessment (HTA) reports.
The Institute of Health Economics (IHE)
The Institute of Health Economics (IHE) in Alberta, Canada, produces economic evaluations, costing and cost-effectiveness analyses and research in health technology assessment to assist decision makers in health policy and practice.
Health Quality Ontario (HQO)
Health Quality Ontario (HQO) is committed to accelerating the use of evidence to ensure that people receive the best quality healthcare possible.
Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment (THETA) Collaborative
THETA Collaborative is a multidisciplinary research collaboration dedicated to providing evidence-informed decision support to health technology policymakers and advancing the science of health technology assessment (HTA).
The Alberta College of Family Physicians (ACFP) – Tools for Practice
Tools for Practice provided by The Alberta College of Family Physicians (ACFP) is a biweekly review that summarizes medical evidence on a clinical question with a focus on information that can modify your day-to-day practice.
HITAP
The Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) is a research unit under Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health. It’s responsible for appraising a wide range of health technologies and programs, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, interventions, individual and community health promotion, and disease prevention as well as social health policy to inform policy decisions in Thailand.
KCE Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre
KCE’s mission is, based on scientific analysis and research, to advise policymakers on decisions relating to health care and health insurance.
SBU – Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services
SBU produces scientifically based assessments intended to support critical decisions in health and medical care.
WHO IRIS
The World Health Organization's Institutional Repository for Information Sharing. TIP: You can search WHO IRIS directly in our search bar.
Medscape Medline Search
MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the database from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and can be accessed in Medscape.
Epocrates Online – MedCalc (free registration required)
Besides its world-famous free drug database, Epocrates online offers access to a medical calculator with a vast range of medical formulas in all specialties.
WHO Guidelines
Recommendations from the World Health Organization that can influence health policies or clinical interventions. TIP: You can search all WHO publications and guidelines directly in our search bar.
WHO Drug Information
WHO drug information provides an overview of relevant topics relating to drug development and regulation. Latest lists of proposed and recommended International Nonproprietary Names for Pharmaceutical Substances (INN) are also included.
RCN Publications
The Royal College of Nursing Publications, including reports, posters, and other documents.