Provides article reviews of the latest evidence-based findings Includes 100+ leading medical journals Produced by the American College of Physicians and accessed electronically through the Ovid Quick Link on the Library web site.

ACP Journal Club Search Strengths

• Commentary that puts each study into clinical perspective

• Evaluation of each study’s strengths and weaknesses.

• Filter to narrow range of results

• Familiar EBM filters include: Therapeutics, Etiology, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and EBM Trends

• Clinical Prediction Guide Filter

• Retrieve articles to help clinicians predict probable future events.

• Economics Filter

• Retrieve articles on the economics of a therapy, treatment or procedure.

• Quality Improvement Filter

• Retrieve articles that focus on issues relating to Quality Improvement.

ACP Journal Club Search Cautions

• No uniform subject headings; must search by keywords

• Use synonyms to find articles with similar terms i.e.  diabetes, diabetic, etc

• Needs a truncation symbol to find plurals or alternate endings. For example, neoplasm? to find neoplasm or neoplasms

• Must use  Boolean operators “OR” / “AND” for combining  multiple similar terms