Health Sciences Library Guides: COVID-19 Information Resources for Clinicians: Getting Started

Disclaimer

This list is not comprehensive and may change periodically. All materials should be critically evaluated by the user. The resources listed are for informational purposes only, and are not a substitute for expert medical advice. Inclusion on the list does not mean College endorsement.

Sifting through all of the information on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 can be overwhelming and confusing. We have gathered the top resources in this guide and will also give you some tools to use when evaluating what you do find.

CEBM Critical Appraisal Tools
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University provides worksheets for evaluating different types of medical evidence.
DISCERN Tool - 16 Questions for Assessing Consumer Health Information
DISCERN is an instrument, or tool, which has been designed to help users of consumer health information judge the quality of written information about treatment choices.
Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Tools
JBI’s critical appraisal tools assist in assessing the trustworthiness, relevance and results of published papers. Includes checklists for multiple study and research types.
GRADE Handbook
The GRADE handbook describes the process of rating the quality of the best available evidence and developing health care recommendations following the approach proposed by the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Working Group (www.gradeworkinggroup.org).
Evaluating Internet Health Information Tutorial (NLM)
Tutorial from the U.S. National Library of Medicine on evaluating online health information covering provider and purpose, information quality, privacy, and a checklist.
UPenn Center for Evidence-based Practice Resources
CEP methods to evaluate and appraise different types of research, studies, and evidence.

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE