ECRI Guidelines Trust™ provides healthcare staff, researchers and patients access to evidence-based clinical guideline summaries.

ECRI is a good alternative supporting the needs of clinicians and health consumers after the shutdown of the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality’s National Guideline Clearinghouse site, due to lack of funding.

Note that access to this resource requires registration. If you have any questions about ECRI Guidelines Trust™, please do not hesitate to ASK US.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is currently involved in PubMed year-end processing activities.

During this time you may find some unusual patterns in what your regular PubMed searches and searches saved in your My NCBI account retrieve.

Annual changes in MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terminology and hierarchy is one of the most important changes that occur during this time. As a rule, some new MeSH and subheadings (qualifiers) are added; a few MeSH terms are deleted, some MESH terms move to other locations in the MeSH hierarchy, etc. For example, a new MeSH “Progression-Free Survival” will be added; “anastrozole” and “letrozole”, currently belonging in Supplementary Concept category, will be promoted to MeSH; a qualifier (subheading) “manpower” will cease to be.

If you have searches saved in your My NCBI account and/or you are getting PubMed e-mail updates, you may want to consult with a Research Informationist to ensure your saved searches are not affected by the annual changes in the MeSH terminology.  Don’t hesitate to ASK US!

To learn more, check out the announcement regarding the year-end processing activities for 2019.

Aimed at health professionals and researchers, the Epistemonikos database is a collaborative and multi-language resource for health evidence. It provides users with access to systematic reviews and other evidence.

Link to Epistemonikos from the MSK Library’s Databases A-Z list and if you have any questions about this resource, please don’t hesitate to ASK US.