Table 3.
Frequency of use of several evidence-based information resources
| Rarely or never n (%) |
1 to 3 times a month n (%) |
1 to 3 times a week n (%) |
Almost every day n (%) |
Total number of respondents | |
| Clinical practice guidelines (specialty societies, HAS, NICE, etc) | 35 (16.6) | 65 (30.8) | 80 (37.9) | 31 (14.7) | 211 |
| PubMed (Medline) | 102 (52.9) | 65 (33.7) | 25 (12.9) | 1 (0.5) | 193 |
| Cochrane Library | 148 (78.7) | 34 (18.1) | 6 (3.2) | 0 | 188 |
| Embase, ScienceIndex or CINAHL | 160 (93.6) | 8 (4.7) | 3 (1.7) | 0 | 171 |
| DARE | 113 (97.4) | 3 (2.6) | 0 | 0 | 116 |
| TRIP, SUMsearch or ACCESSSS | 168 (98.3) | 3 (1.7) | 0 | 0 | 171 |
HAS, French Haute Autorité de Santé. https://www.has-sante.fr.
NICE, UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence. https://www.nice.org.uk/.
CINAHL, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. https://www.ebsco.com/.
DARE, Database of Abstracts of Reviews on Effectiveness. https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/CRDWeb/.
TRIP, Turning Research Into Practice database. https://www.tripdatabase.com.
SUMsearch, A federated or meta-search engine. http://sumsearch.org/.
ACCESSSS, ACCESSSS Federated Search. https://plus.mcmaster.ca/ACCESSSS/.