Pratt Guides: Systematic Reviews: Finding Systematic Reviews

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
AHRQ offers government publications (not journal articles).

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive coverage of nursing and allied health literature plus 400 journals covered in full text.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
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This evidence based resource is a collection of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Includes Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Cochrane Clinical Answers.
Embase This link opens in a new window
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Biomedical and pharmacological database containing bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexing derived from biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Go the to bottom section of PubMed and click on Clinical Queries. This is a tool with predefined filters to assist in finding specific types of evidence including systematic reviews.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific and social science journals, books and conference proceedings.

Databases may have systematic reviews (SR) available but often the use will need to check and potentially use a specific filter. See a list below of some of the databases that include SRs.

Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) Collaboration
The Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) Collaboration (Harden et al., 1999) is an international group of individuals, universities and professional organisations committed to the development of evidence informed education in the medical and health professions through: the dissemination of information which allows teachers and stakeholders in the medical and health professions to make decisions on the basis of the best evidence available; the production of reviews which present the best available evidence and meet the needs of the user; and the creation of a culture of best evidence education amongst individuals, institutions and national bodies.
Campbell Collaborative
The Campbell Collaboration promotes positive social and economic change through the production and use of systematic reviews and other evidence synthesis for evidence-based policy and practice.-- our mission statement
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (University of York)
CRD is a research department that specialises in evidence synthesis, assembling and analysing data from multiple research studies to generate policy relevant research. We undertake high quality systematic reviews and associated economic evaluations, develop underpinning methods, and promote and facilitate the use of research evidence in decision-making.
Cochrane Collaborative
Our mission is to promote evidence-informed health decision-making by producing high-quality, relevant, accessible systematic reviews and other synthesized research evidence.
EPPI-Centre
The EPPI-Centre is a specialist centre for: (i) developing methods for systematic reviewing and synthesis of research evidence; and (ii) developing methods for the study of the use research.
Joanna Briggs Institute
The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) is the "international not-for-profit, research and development Centre within the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medical at the University of Adelaide, South Australia." Free access is given to some systematic reviews in the JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports.