Harvard Library of Evidence
peter.suber's bookmarks 2016-10-06
Summary:
"The Library is a project of the HMS Countway Library of Medicine and representatives of other HMS hospitals and Harvard institutions. It was founded in collaboration with the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The goal of the Library is to create a provider-led, sustainable, public repository of medical evidence to enable and promote the broad and consistent practice of evidence-based medicine in the United States in order to improve the quality of care while simultaneously reducing waste and cost.
The Library has been organized to serve as a public resource for medical evidence from all sources and, therefore, will focus on the accumulation, curation, organization and functionalization of medical evidence rather than on the creation of new evidence...."