Sources of evidence relevant to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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Clinical Decision Support
The COVID-19 content in BMJ Best Practice, which HEE funds for the NHS, is freely available and being continually updated by the BMJ. It includes a patient information leaflet.
Dynamed COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus)
See also Dynamed’s EBM Focus newsletter on COVID-19: 10 things you need to know.
UptoDate
Free access to critical clinical content in the fight against COVID-19.
Please see the direct links below for you to share with your clinical colleagues.
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome:
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Clinical features, diagnosis, and complications in adults
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, pathology, and etiology in adults
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Supportive care and oxygenation in adults
Ventilation:
- Prone ventilation for adult patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Ventilator management strategies for adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome
Coronavirus
- Airway management, anesthesia machine ventilation, and anesthetic care
- Arrhythmias and conduction system disease
- Cancer care during the pandemic
- Considerations in children
- Coronary artery disease issues
- Critical care issues
- Epidemiology, virology, clinical features, diagnosis, and prevention
- Infection control in health care and home settings
- Issues related to kidney disease and hypertension
- Management in adults
- Myocardial injury
- Pregnancy issues
- Psychiatric issues
- Society guidelines
Wolters Kluwer Coronavirus Resources & Tools page provides resources across its Health solutions.
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Evidence Summaries |
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Clinical Knowledge Summaries: Coronavirus – COVID 19
Clinical Knowledge Summaries focus on the most common and significant presentations in primary care. They give trusted information to support safe decision-making and improve standards of patient care.
Cochrane Library
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): effective options for quitting smoking during the pandemic
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to clinical rehabilitation
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to critical care
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): infection control and prevention measures
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): optimizing health in the home workspace
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): regional anaesthesia to reduce drug use in anaesthesia and avoid aerosol generation
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): remote care through telehealth
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): support for wellbeing in the healthcare workforce
Systematic reviews most directly relevant to the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Evidence Aid – Coronavirus (COVID-19): Evidence Collection
Summaries of relevant research, available as soon as each is ready. A ‘NEW’ flag will appear on each review as it is added and remain there for 48-72 hours.
LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus.
Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service – CEBM
Evidence synthesis on the COVID-19 pandemic.
UNCOVER (Usher Network for COVID-19 Evidence Reviews)
From the University of Edinburgh.
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Evidence from Trusted Sources |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US): Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Cochrane COVID-19 Study Register
The register helps systematic reviewers prioritize topics, identify available evidence, and produce urgently needed reviews.
For front-line health professionals, public health policymakers, and research teams developing new therapeutic, diagnostic, and preventive interventions for COVID-19.
EPPI Centre – COVID-19: a living systematic map of the evidence
An up-to-date map of the current evidence partitioned into broad domains.
Database of public health guidance on COVID-19
A database of COVID-19 public health guidance produced by international organisations. Compiled by Eire’s Health Information and Quality Authority.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control COVID-19
General updates and dashboards. Infographics, leaflets and videos. Also latest on countermeasures.
National Library of Medicine (USA) Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Information pulled together by the National Library of Medicine based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA on the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
See also Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) Coronavirus (COVID-19)
NHS Employers: COVID-19 guidance for the NHS workforce
Guidance to help you provide protection and support for NHS staff.
NHS England/Improvement Coronavirus Specialty Guides
NICE is now the single point of advice on caring for people with coronavirus and the management of COVID-19 in different healthcare settings. 24 of the COVID-19 specialty guides have now moved to its website and NICE will begin a process of mapping the recommendations against its suite of COVID-19 rapid guidelines and integrating them where possible.
Rapid COVID-19 Guidelines
All NICE products on COVID 19. Includes any guidance and NICE Pathways.
NICE Evidence
A general evidence search on coronavirus or COVID-19.
Norwegian Institute of Public Health: COVID-19 Living Map of the Evidence
The main map gives an overview of all publications categorized according to publication type, population of interest and topic.
More detailed maps are available for these topics:
- Etiology
- Diagnosis
- Infection prevention and control
- Pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions
- Prognosis
- Experiences and perceptions, social, political, economic aspects
Public Health England: Finding the evidence: Coronavirus
The Public Health England Knowledge and Library Services Team has produced this page to help those working on the current coronavirus outbreak identify and access emerging evidence as it is published.
Queen’s Nursing Institute Coronavirus Information Centre
A collection of resources and links on coronavirus for community nurses and allied health professionals.
Resources from Royal Colleges and other professional bodies on COVID-19
Produced by the HEE Knowledge Management Team.
Richard Lehman’s COVID-19 reviews
A weekly round-up of Richard Lehman personal selection of articles of relevance to clinicians dealing with COVID-19.
He is professor of the Shared Understanding of Medicine at the University of Birmingham.
Collection of relevant articles on COVID-19.
World Health Organisation: Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Database on the latest scientific findings and knowledge on coronavirus disease (COVID-2019).
It is updated daily from searches of bibliographic databases, hand searches of the table of contents of relevant journals, and the addition of other relevant scientific articles that come to our attention. T
he entries in the database may not be exhaustive and new research will be added regularly. The database is updated daily, Monday through Friday.
Messaging service providing the latest news and information on coronavirus. Includes details on symptoms and how people can protect themselves and others. It also provides the latest situation reports and numbers in real-time.
Produced in Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish with partners WhatsApp and Facebook to keep people safe from coronavirus.
TRIP Pro
The advanced ‘Pro’ option is now available to all NHS users from home. Please sign in using your .nhs.uk or .nhs.net address.
Click here for high quality reviews and guidance on TripPro related to COVID-19. The TripPro blog highlights highlighting popular articles and popular searches.
We are bringing together academic, NHS, and industry to support the COVID-19 response.
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Free Open Access Resources |
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A full-text search engine for the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset.
COVID-19 Scientific Resource Centre
Aims to inform governments, humanitarian organisations and media representatives on the latest evidence on the COVID-19 virus.
Provided by the Geneva Centre for Education & Research in Humanitarian Action, the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID).
Elsevier COVID-19 Healthcare Hub
Includes toolkits for healthcare professionals working in community care, ambulatory care, emergency care, inpatient care, ICU and mental and behavioural health.
See also the Daily Rounds of interesting and impactful information, Expert Insights, Guidelines, and Research.
Europe PMC: Recently Published Open Access Articles
PMC Open Access: Recently Published Articles
Open access resources covering COVID-19 and lookalike infections such as SARS and MERS.
ProQuest Coronavirus Research Database
Includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv.
Log in with your NHS OpenAthens account.
BMJ: Coronavirus (COVID-19): Latest news and resources
Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology
Elsevier: Novel Coronavirus Information Center
Emerald: Coronavirus, the management of epidemics and the wider impact on society
Lancet: COVID-19 Resource Centre
MAG Online (Mark Allen Group) COVID-19 articles
Nature: SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19
Oxford Academic Journals COVID-19, other coronaviruses, and related topics
Wiley: Covid-19: Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
Liang, T. (2020) Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment , First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine. – Open Access eBook
The Handbook is available to everyone for free. However, due to the limited time, there might be some errors and defects.
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LKS COVID-19 Discovery Portals |
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- Ambulance Services in England: COVID-19 Information Resources
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare: Coronavirus Knowledge Resource Centre
- Cornwall Health Library
- Exeter Health Library
- Greater Manchester Mental Health COVID-19 Resources
- UHCW: COVID-19 Topic Page
- University of Oxford Bodleian Health Care Libraries
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