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| Therapy | Harm | Prognosis | Diagnosis |
| Cochrane Library (Cochrane Reviews/DARE reviews) | If an ADR (adverse drug reaction): Evidence Based Drug Handbook (e.g. Micromedex or Martindales) | Evidence Based Textbook (e.g. SAM or Up to Date) OR Current editions of specialty or subspecialty textbooks (e.g. MD Consult) | Evidence Based Textbook (e.g. SAM or Up to Date) OR Current editions of specialty or subspecialty textbooks (e.g. MD Consult) |
| Evidence Based Textbook (e.g. SAM) | If not an ADR: Evidence Based Textbook (e.g. SAM) OR Current editions of specialty or subspecialty textbooks (e.g. MD Consult) OR Possibly a toxicology, environmental or occupational health encyclopedia or handbook | Medline (search for subjects "Prognosis" or "Survival Analysis" or for truncated textword "prognos" | Best Evidence |
| Best Evidence/Clinical Evidence | EMBASE (search for articles indexed as "Case Control Study" or "Cohort Analysis" or truncated textword "risk" | EMBASE (search for articles whose titles or abstracts contain the truncated textword "prognos" or are indexed under "Prognosis" or explode "Survival") | Clinical Practice Guideline (only if it is current and has good levels or evidence) |
| Clinical Practice Guideline (only if it is current and has good levels of evidence) | Medline (search for "Case Control Studies" (MESH) or "Cohort Studies" (MESH) without exploding or truncated textword risk* or harm*) | Web of Science | Medline (search for articles with "sensitivity and specificity") |
| Medline (search for or limit to "randomized controlled trials" or "meta analysis" | Web of Science | Embase (search for articles that deal with "Diagnostic Accuracy") | |
| EMBASE (search for RCTs) | Web of Science | ||
| Web of Science |
