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| Required for small healthcare collection (e.g. departmental library) | Required for medium sized healthcare collection (e.g. postgraduate medical library) | Required for large healthcare collection (e.g. university health sciences library) |
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Bandolier [newsletter]
British Journal of Clinical Governance (Formerly Journal of Clinical Effectiveness)
Effective Health Care
Effectiveness Matters [bulletin]
Evidence Based Healthcare (formerly Evidence Based Health Policy and Management)
Evidence Based Medicine
Evidence Based Nursing
Journal of Clinical Excellence
Journal of Clinical Governance (formerly Audit Trends)
Other relevant specialty EBM journals (eg. Evidence Based
Cardiovascular Medicine, Evidence Based Mental Health)
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Cochrane Library
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (Ovid)
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Andrew Booth, Senior Lecturer in Evidence Based Healthcare Information, ScHARR 30/07/2000