Introduction
Medical research itself is notably different from information accumulation in other fields of science. With this in mind, the existence of a wide variety of specific research databases is understandable. There are a few exceptional academic databases for biological research, medicine, and healthcare that provide actual value in daily research.
Discussion
Scientific publications, research papers, conference proceedings, reviews, and much more can be found in scholarly resources (Rabinstein, 2018). It can be argued that among these options, the database PubMed remains the one to turn to first. It is located at the National Institutes of Health and contains bibliographic data for over 28 million articles, as well as abstracts and links to full-text publisher websites. Additionally, the database has an easy-to-use and intuitive interface that would assist in effective research and save one’s time by providing the tool to refine results as much as possible.
Cochrane is a British international charitable organization that organizes medical research findings to help health professionals, patients, and policymakers make evidence-based decisions regarding health therapies. The Cochrane Library publishes systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and diagnostic tests conducted by the group (Garritty et al., 2021). Its accuracy remains unparalleled within this specific research niche due to successfully hosting most of the reliable information written in this form.
Conclusion
Systematic reviews conducted by the Cochrane Collaboration (an international network of researchers affiliated with this non-profit organization) are widely regarded as the gold standard in evidence-based medicine. The fundamental reason for this is that Cochrane reviews follow a standard and well-defined process to reduce bias and random error. We emphasize the most important methodological elements of Cochrane reviews in this issue, as well as reporting on the editorial process that led to the review’s publication in the Cochrane Library.
References
Garritty, C., et al. (2021). Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group offers evidence-informed guidance to conduct rapid reviews. Journal of clinical epidemiology, 130, 13-22.
Rabinstein, A. A. (2018). Administrative medical databases for clinical research: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Neurocritical Care, 29(3), 323-325.