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The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) provides an online repository of current, high quality research evidence on health and public health issues. Funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research at University of York, the CRD databases identify and critically summarize systematic reviews and economic evaluations and provide a comprehensive listing of in-progress and published health technology assessments. The databases play a key role in identifying and appraising research evidence to promote and facilitate evidence-informed decision making.
The CRD databases are updated daily and provide professionals with access to:
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) databases include:
DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects): This database contains over 9,000 quality assessed systematic reviews on health interventions, health services and social determinants of health.
NHS EED (NHS Economic Evaluation Database): With over 11,000 economic evaluations of health interventions, NHS EED includes cost-benefit, cost-utility and cost-effectiveness analyses.
HTA Database: The HTA Database contains over 10,000 summaries of completed and in-progress health technology assessments, which are typically only available from individual funding agencies.
PROSPERO: International prospective register of systematic reviews (Booth et al., 2012). Launched in Feb 2011, PROSPERO aims to reduce duplication of systematic reviews and increase transparency of systematic review methods. PROSPERO currently includes systematic reviews of evidence with health-related outcomes, with 200 records of systematic reviews being conducted in 33 countries.
Users can search the CRD databases using the following enhanced features:
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The critical abstracts available in DARE and NHS EED are written and checked by experienced researchers and health economists. There is no quality assessment or peer review of the information contained in the HTA database or PROSPERO.
These summaries are written by the NCCMT to condense and to provide an overview of the resources listed in the Registry of Methods and Tools and to give suggestions for their use in a public health context. For more information on individual methods and tools included in the review, please consult the authors/developers of the original resources.
We have provided the resources and links as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by McMaster University of any of the products, services or opinions of the external organizations, nor have the external organizations endorsed their resources and links as provided by McMaster University. McMaster University bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of the external sites.
