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Why use it? |
| Physician's Guide + Resources (American College of Physicians) | Current education on all clinical aspects of COVID-19. Updates are clearly posted. CME credit available |
| COVID Ready Communication Playbook (VitalTalk) JUN 2020 | Has practical advice on how to talk with patients/families about difficult COVID-related topics. Continuum of care. Multiple languages. |
| A Composite Reference Standard for COVID-19 Diagnostic Accuracy Studies: A roadmap (CEBM, University of Oxford) | Diagnosis support. The group is developing a reference standard for diagnosis and aims to decrease the number of false negative rRT-PCRs. |
| Guidelines (Elsevier) | Clinical guidelines for therapy, labs, testing, PPE, ventilators |
| Treatment algorithms (BMJ Best Practice) | Clinical decision support for suspected and confirmed COVID-19 |
| Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service (Univ. of Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine) | Rapid reviews of primary care questions; updates noted. |
| Clinical Care FAQs - Your Questions Answered | ECRI answers to questions from health care workers |
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Why use it? |
| LitCOVID (National Library of Medicine) | Updated every 24 hours as COVID-19-related articles are indexed in PubMed. Easily narrow focus to topics like transmission, case reports, diagnosis, forecasting, treatment. |
| Global literature on coronavirus disease (World Health Organization) | Global perspective, easily narrow search by major subjects, type of study, language, and clinical focus. |
| PubMed COVID-19 Search (National Library of Medicine) | Use this basic COVID-19 search strategy as a starting point for your own searches. |
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Why use it? |
| Clinical Overview: Novel Coronavirus Information (COVID-19) Infection (Elsevier) | Start-to-finish overview; updated frequently, references provided. |
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National Institutes of Health, or UpToDate, or Dynamed, or British Medical Journal or Infectious Diseases Society of America |
Clinical overviews; some identify evidence quality Quickly find specific focus area (e.g., diagnosis) Updates are noted/highlighted |
| Society guidelines (UpToDate) | International coverage, listed by medical specialties & country. |
| CDC Situation Summary | Information for Health Care Professionals |
| COVID-19 Information Portal (EBSCO) | Global scope, leans toward government policy & news |
| Cochrane COVID Reviews | Trusted source of systematic reviews |
| Special Populations: Trusted Resources |
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