Check to see if your local Eastern Region medical library already subscribes. Check to see if your local Eastern Region medical library already subscribes. Searching for existing reviews Much time and effort spent searching for references can be saved by identifying reviews which already exist in your field of interest. The following sites could save you hours. The Cochrane library provide free access to abstracts of all the systematic reviews they have conducted.
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Provides bullet point summaries of recently published important papers in the medical literature. Effective Health Care Bulletins Effective Health Care is a bi-monthly bulletin for decision makers which reviews the effectiveness of a variety of health care interventions. Recent editions are free to download from this site. In order to avoid replication of research, the major funders of medical research have begun to produce databases of research projects currently underway. Before beginning your research project you can use the following resources to check that no one else has had the same research idea.