This column highlights new resources that clarify knowledge about effects of specific practices in maternal child health. The focus is on new and recently updated systematic reviews and on overviews of best research evidence. The column will appear in four issues per year simultaneously in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health and in the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing. Each column identifies recent additions to three major evidence-based databases: โข Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) uses a standardized method to review studies that evaluate effects of specific health care practices. It is a leading source of high-quality reviews. โข Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) is a compilation of structured abstracts of quality-assessed systematic reviews. Staff at the United Kingdom National Health Service's Centre for Reviews and Dissemination use quality criteria to determine whether a review is included and to develop abstracts. โข Clinical Evidence is a source of overviews of the best available research about effects of interventions. These overviews from the BMJ Publishing Group examine effects of interventions in specific clinical areas.
The column also identifies other recent evidence-based research reviews and ends with an evidence commentary.