Keeping up with Latest Evidence: Cochrane Library Reviews

This collection is part of our OVID platform and consists of two journals: ACP Journal Club and Evidence-Based Medicine, merging both content into ACP Journal Club in 2000.

Providers can quickly understand and apply to their practice important changes in medical knowledge, without having to read and synthesize for themselves thousands of journal articles.

Searching Cochrane Library

• Scroll down the homepage to browse by topic or Cochrane Review Group
• Basic search: type a search term directly into the box
• Advanced search: create complex searches, access saved searches, or search by MeSH or PICO Search
• Filter field menu limits results by author, abstract, dates, language, type of review or status of review, Boolean operators, proximity or truncation operators, word variations, and double quotation marks for phrase searching

Saved Searches

• View the order – most recent saved first
• Load a saved search
• Share a saved search with an email link
• Email new articles for saved search
• Export a printer-friendly copy of your search

Setting up Topic Alerts

Cochrane Library topic alerts make it easy to stay up to date with the latest research in your field. Follow these instructions to set up alerts and be notified when a Cochrane Review is published on a particular topic.

• After you have registered your account, sign in with your information
• Select Browse (top right)
• On the Browse by Topic screen, select Set email alerts (top right)
• On the set weekly email ales screen, use the down arrows next to each topic to expand subtopics
• Tick to select areas of interest and Save Changes, you are now subscribed