ACP Journal Club

Best Evidence. Best Evidence [43] combines more than 1200 abstracts and commentaries from ACP Journal Club and Evidence-Based Medicine (described below) and the full text of Diagnostic Strategies for Common Medical Problems, 2nd ed., together on a CD-ROM. It is commercially available. 

Evidence-Based Medicine. Evidence-Based Medicine [45] consists of summarized abstracts of articles on family medicine, internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, psychiatry, and anesthesiology with commentary by clinical experts. More than 50 peer-reviewed medical journals are abstracted. Also included are key selections from ACP Journal Club. Evidence-Based Medicine is commercially available however, its distribution is restricted and does not include North, Central, or South America. 

ACP Journal Club, [Internet]. URL http //www.ac-ponline.org/catalog/journals/acpjc.htm, accessed 10-14-2000. 

Since the introduction of the term evidence-based medicine in 1991 by Gordon Guyatt (initially in an editorial in ACP Journal Club and in a supplement to Annals of Internal Medicine), volumes have been written on the topic. A PubMed search on January 2,2005, for the term returned... 

ACP Journal Club. Philadelphia, PA American College of Physicians. Bimonthly. ISSN 1056-8751. Offers evidence-based reviews of studies from over 150 peer-reviewed medical journals in the areas of internal and family medicine. 

Electronic version of both American College of Physicians (ACP) Journal Club and Evidence-Based Medicine (http //hiru.mcmaster.ca/acpjc/acpod.htm). Available on CD-ROM. 

ACP Journal Club http //www.acponline.org/joumals/acpjc/jcmenu.htm)... 

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