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Care
    http://epoc.cochrane.org/about-epoc
    University of Alberta Evidence Based Practice Centre
    http://www.ualberta.ca/ARCHE/epc.htm
    Sources of reviews and abstracts relating to evidence-based practice

    ACP Journal Club
    http://acpjc.acponline.org/
    Bandolier (now an electronic version, independently written by Oxford scientists)
    http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/
    BMJ Clinical Evidence – a compendium of evidence for effective health care
    http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/index.jsp
    Centre for Evidence Based Purchasing
    http://nhscep.useconnect.co.uk/Default.aspx
    Cochrane Systematic Reviews (abstracts only)
    http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane-reviews
    Effective Health Care Bulletins
    http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/ehcb_em.htm
    Evidence Based Nursing Practice
    http://www.ebnp.co.uk/index.htm
    Evidence Based On-call
    http://www.eboncall.org/
    PROSPERO – worldwide prospective register of systematic reviews
    http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/
    Journals available on the internet

    eBMJ (electronic version of the
British Medical Journal
)
    http://www.bmj.com
    Journal of the American Medical Association
(JAMA)
    http://jama.ama-assn.org/
    Canadian Medical Association Journal
(CMAJ)
    http://www.cmaj.ca/
    Evidence-based Medicine
    http://ebm.bmj.com/
    Evidence-based Mental Health
    http://ebmh.bmj.com/
    Evidence-based Nursing
    http://ebn.bmj.com/
    Databases, bibliographies and catalogues

    PUBMED (the free version of MEDLINE)
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
    BestBets – best evidence topics
    http://www.bestbets.org
    Trip database – turning research into practice
    http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html
    BMJ Best Health
    http://besthealth.bmj.com/x/index.html
    DUETs – The Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments publishes uncertainties that cannot currently be answered by referring to reliable up-to-date systematic reviews of existing research evidence
    http://www.library.nhs.uk/DUETs/Default.aspx
    Google Scholar
    http://www scholar.google.co.uk
    National Research Register Archive – a searchable copy of the archives held by the National Research Register (NRR) Projects Database, up to September 2007
    http://www.nihr.ac.uk/Pages/NRRArchive.aspx
    National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Network Research Portfolio is a database of clinical research studies that it supports, undertaken in the NHS
    http://public.ukcrn.org.uk/search/
    Sources of guidelines and integrated care pathways

    AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) – provides practical healthcare information, research findings and data to help consumers
    http://www.ahcpr.gov/
    Evidence Based Practice Centres – developed in conjunction with the AHRQ
    http://www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/epc/
    Cedars – Sinai Medical Center, Health Services Research
    Home page: http://www.csmc.edu/
    National Guideline Clearinghouse
    http://www.guideline.gov/
    NICE Pathways
    http://pathways.nice.org.uk/
    Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)
    http://www.sign.ac.uk
    Scottish Pathways Association
    http://www.icpus.org.uk/
    Towards Optimised Practice (TOP) Clinical Guidelines
    http://www.topalbertadoctors.org/cpgs.php
    Useful texts

    Cochrane Collaboration Handbook
    http://www.cochrane-handbook.org/

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Day case surgery
    Paul Baskerville
    Introduction
    One of the main aims of surgery is to return the postoperative patient to their home environment, in a safe and timely fashion. If, following a surgical procedure, the patient does not spend a few days in hospital, but returns home the same day, we describe that process as day case surgery. Why should this obvious and rather banal variation in length of hospital stay deserve a chapter of its own in a surgical textbook? The reason is that the development of successful day surgery practice, and the knowledge gained from studying its component parts, have been instrumental in improving the delivery of all surgical care in the last 30 years. It has helped all parties responsible for