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Evidence Based Medicine Guidelines
The platform of EBM Guidelines has been developed by Iscientia, and gives health care professionals access to different databases of EBM Guidelines.
- The main database consists of the Duodecim Point of Care Guidelines for General Practitioners, containing about 1000 resumes of guidelines, 4800 evidence summaries, and hundreds of images and videos.
- The set of 1000 guideline resumes is translated into French and Dutch (other languages are ongoing) by a team of professional medical translators and validated by GP’s.
- We follow the update cycle of Duodecim to publish the reviewed translated guidelines (approx. 300 updates per year).
- Besides this global database, every country can add specific national guidelines from different guideline developers, or can add contextual notes to international guidelines. To know how, have a look at our Editorial Platform!
Quick or advanced search facilities
You can perform a search with just one click, or explore the advanced search functionalities.
- Simple search, just enter one or more terms and look up the results
- Save and reuse specific searches
- Open recently consulted pages
- Search by theme or medication
- Search by PICO
- Country specific search functionalities are possible, e.g.
- search based on your profile (GP, midwife, nurse, pharmacist,…)
- search by specialty
- search in one or more languages
- add and search by synonyme
Once you have entered your search, you can filter the results, based on dates, organization, type of document…
Consult a guideline, summary, image or video
- the title region gives information on
- dates : when was the guideline created or updated,
- the level of evidence according to the pyramid of Haynes,
- the producer of the guideline.
- The table of contents on the left lets you immediately jump to a specific subtitle, e.g. treatment, diagnosis, referrals, medication…
- You can give feedback to the editorial team, send a link to colleagues, mark a guideline as your favorite (it will appear on your home page after login!), save the page in PDF or print it.
- If a patient leaflet is available, you will have direct access to it.
- If critical appraisal is available, you will be able to access it immediately.
- The source guideline, this is the full text, is always accessible, as well as studies or related articles on Pubmed, for example.
- The authors and their Conflict of Interest are visible in the guideline.
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View an evidence summary
References to evidence summaries are clearly visible in the guideline. Clicking on it opens the evidence summary, stating the level of evidence and providing a link to the source documents (Pubmed)
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Pictures in small or large format
Every illustration is immediately visible in the guideline, and can be enlarged for more details.
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Tools & calculators
If tools or calculators are available, you can immediately open and use them.
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