PDFs of Cochrane Reviews

Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews in PDFsPDFs for EBM Topic Reviews in The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews are now available. Affinity staff can click on clearly marked links on a Topic Review page and a Group Table of Contents page in the database, as well as in a Search Results page, to get to the PDFs.

To access The Cochrane Database through Affinity, follow this path :

Method 1 :
Affinity Intranet > Library > Find the Best Evidence > Cochrane

Method 2:
In the search box atop of any Affinity Intranet Webpage, type “Cochrane.”
The first two items in the results list will lead to The Cochrane Database.

Find the Best Evidence : Evidence-Based Practice Tools - (100%)Successfully navigate the many tools available for Evidence-Based Practice. Includes an easy-to-use framework for accessing Cochrane Systematic Reviews, practice guidelines, clinical trials, and more ...

Evidenced-Based Practice Resources (Ovid) - (100%)Access to our Evidence-Based Practice Reviews via Ovid. Includes The Cochrane Library (complete) and ACP Journal Club.

Article on LEAN as applied to Healthcare

Reducing waste in US health care systems. Bush RW.
JAMA. 2007 Feb 28;297(8):871-4. Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Wash 98101, USA. PMID: 17327529 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Link to Full-text (This should work at any Affinity computer or through remote access.)

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