Academic research databases
Quaternary prevention
Sources of Evidence-Based Medicine and Quaternary Prevention for clinical decision-making: A source to support clinical decision-making
BestPractice http://bestpractice.bmj.com
Also available for download and use as a smartphone app (a tool freely available to all health professionals in the municipal network of Florianópolis). Questions about how to access? Contact: dapsflorianopolis@gmail.com A tool that combines the latest evidence, guidelines, and expert opinions with a step-by-step approach covering prevention, treatment, and prognosis. This tool is a relevant resource for health professionals, designed to support them in decision-making, from diagnosis to treatment. You can download the smartphone version for offline access on your phone.
BMJ Learning http://learning.bmj.com/learning/home.html?local e=pt_BR
Questions about how to access? Contact: dapsflorianopolis@gmail.com BMJ Learning offers high-quality continuing medical education to doctors and other health professionals. It contains hundreds of text, video, and audio learning modules, accredited and peer reviewed. BMJ Learning modules deal with everyday issues in hospital care and first aid. The information is based on proven facts, goes through peer review, and is updated regularly. Most modules last one hour. The modules generate qualifying points for revalidation of the Family Physician title by SBMFC and of other specialties.
The BMJ (British Medical Journal) http://www.bmj.com/thebmj (freely available to all health professionals in the municipal network of Florianópolis) Questions about how to access? Contact: dapsflorianopolis@gmail.com A renowned international medical journal of the BMJ group.
Telephone: 0800 644 6543 The 0800 644 6543 is a service of Telessaúde Brasil Redes that offers free teleconsulting by phone to physicians and nurses working in Primary Care throughout Brazil. The goal is to help solve patients' health problems quickly, objectively, and based on the best scientific evidence. Questions are answered in real time, with no need for prior scheduling and at no cost to the caller.
DYNAMED Also available for download and use as a smartphone app. A clinical reference tool with quick answers. Freely available through the Ministry of Health's Evidence-Based Health Portal with prior registration on the site: http://www.psbe.ufrn.br/ or http://aplicacao.periodicos.saude.gov.br/index
You can download the smartphone version for offline access on your phone: go to the ‘Mobile’ tab inside DynaMed for instructions. MICROMEDEX Also available for download and use as a smartphone app. A clinical reference tool, with drug dosage calculation and drug-interaction checking. Freely available through the Ministry of Health's Evidence-Based Health Portal with prior registration on the site: http://www.psbe.ufrn.br/ or http://aplicacao.periodicos.saude.gov.br/index You can download the smartphone version for offline access on your phone.
Bulário Eletrônico – ANVISA http://www.anvisa.gov.br/datavisa/fila_bula/index.asp
The Electronic Drug Information Directory (Bulário Eletrônico) was developed to give the public and health professionals fast, free access to drug package inserts. The system carries the updated inserts of drugs registered in Brazil. So far, the inserts of more than 600 drugs have been published.
Formative Second Opinion (SOF) http://aps.bvs.br/segunda-opiniao-formativa/
The Formative Second Opinion (SOF) is an information source whose content is questions and answers, based on good evidence, related to the priority problems of primary health care (PHC)
Health Library https://www.ufrgs.br/telessauders/portalteleducacao/biblioteca-em-saude/
Aplicativos https://www.ufrgs.br/telessauders/noticias/aplicativ os-para-auxiliar-profissionais-da-atencao-primaria/
Pills of Wisdom https://www.ufrgs.br/telessauders/portalteleducacao/videos/pilulas-de-sabedoria/
Questions of the Week https://www.ufrgs.br/telessauders/aconteceaqui/perguntas-da-semana/
TelessaúdeRS is a strategy for qualifying Primary Health Care/Basic Care (PHC/BC). Teleconsulting, tele-education, and telediagnosis actions are aimed at all professionals who work in PHC/BC (physicians, nurses, dentists, nursing technicians, oral health technicians and assistants, community health agents) and at the other professionals of the PHC/BC Support Centers.
Choosing Wisely EUA http://www.choosingwisely.org/
Choosing Wisely Canada http://www.choosingwiselycanada.org/
Choosing Wisely Australia http://www.choosingwisely.org.au/
Choosing Wisely Brasil http://proqualis.net/choosing-wisely-brasil
Choosing Wisely is an international initiative that aims to ensure the right care at the right time. These are evidence-based recommendations that should be discussed in order to make smart choices about the most appropriate care based on the patient's individual situation.
NO HACER https://www.semfyc.es/wpcontent/uploads/2016/05/Doc33Recomendaciones
NoHacer.pdf http://e-documentossemfyc.es/recomendacionesno-hacer-2-a-parte/
DO NOT DO IN EMERGENCIES http://e-documentossemfyc.es/15- recomendaciones-de-no-hacer-en-urgencias/
Documents from the Spanish Society of Family Medicine that discuss the efficacy and effectiveness of medical interventions.
Cochrane Summaries http://summaries.cochrane.org/
Cochrane - a global, independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, caregivers, and people interested in health, intended for everyone who wants to use high-quality information to make health decisions.
The NNT http://www.thennt.com/
Summary of evidence on the main diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Ideal for shared decision-making with your patient.
Plantas Medicinais http://www.hortomedicinaldohu.ufsc.br/
Site with information on the indications and contraindications of some of the main medicinal plants used in Brazil.
Therapeutic Initiative An initiative with the mission of providing physicians and pharmacists with evidence-based updates www.ti.ubc.ca/ on drug prescribing.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org
American site with the best evidence on screening tests.
QRisk http://qrisk.org/ http://qrisk.org/lifetime/
Framingran, QRisk e ACC/AHA ASCVD http://bestsciencemedicine.com/chd/calc2.html
Cardiovascular risk calculators.
Australian Prescriber https://www.nps.org.au/australian-prescriber/
A journal that critically reviews the main evidence on drugs and treatments.
Equipo CESCA http://equipocesca.org/pt
Site with many articles on evidence-based medicine
RBMFC http://www.rbmfc.org.br RBMFC – special issue on Quaternary Prevention http://www.rbmfc.org.br/rbmfc/issue/view/40 Brazilian Journal of Family and Community Medicine.
BMJ: Too Much Medicine http://www.bmj.com/too-much-medicine
Site with articles from the BMJ group's campaign on overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
JAMA Less is More http://jamanetwork.com/collection.aspx?categoryi d=6017
Site with articles from JAMA's campaign on overdiagnosis and overtreatment
Canal do YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/jmccorma1234
Video about Choosing Wisely http://youtu.be/WOjq30l4rOQ
Videos on clinical topics with a quaternary prevention approach.
TripDatabase http://www.tripdatabase.com/
A tool for searching evidence and guidelines.
NoGracias http://www.nogracias.eu/
An independent civil organization for transparency, integrity, and equity in health policy, health care, and biomedical research.
Evidence-Based Pediatrics (Pediatría Basada en Pruebas) http://www.pediatriabasadaenpruebas.com
Site with content on evidence-based pediatrics.
FactBoxes https://www.harding-center.mpg.de/en/healthinformation/fact-boxes https://www.hardingcenter.mpg.de/en/box/magazin1/9428-fact-boxes www.harding-center.mpg.de/en/hardingcenter/media/media-response
Pictograms for shared decision-making about screening.
NICE Guidelines http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance
Guidelines of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence of the English National Health Service (NHS).
P4cientes https://www.facebook.com/P4cientes1654021268207477/?fref=ts
Prevenção Quaternária https://www.facebook.com/Preven%C3%A7%C3% A3o-Quatern%C3%A1ria101867553195381/?fref=ts
Facebook pages on Quaternary Prevention.
