To avoid duplication of effort, topics are selected only after a review of the Cochrane Collaboration. An overriding goal is to actively facilitate the implementation of knowledge in clinical practice by reviewing and updating the practice manuals of collaborating institutions. Use of much of this resource requires a subscription. Available Evidence Reports . This center provides telephone consultation service for physicians caring for bone marrow transplant recipients.
Guidelines are present for physicians and patients.
Some sections are closed except to registered physicians. The first widely known reviews were produced by the efforts of expert panels and sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. For resources for which full text is not available, there is a link to the PubMed citation. In this category, informaticists try to tap into what the expert knows and how they use it in their practice in order to model the expert's decision making process. The domain knowledge that underlies these systems is based on empirical research knowledge as well as practice experience and knowledge gathered from clinical databases.