The McMaster PLUS database consists of a curated collection of references from the medical literature that are critically appraised by experts and practicing clinicians and have:

•       High-quality
•       High clinical relevance
•       Newsworthiness

(For more details on our process see What We Do)

How can I use content from McMaster PLUS to help me to stay current in my role as a practicing health care provider?

1. Sign up for personalized free alerts on new high-quality studies within your discipline of interest (EvidenceAlerts, ACCESSSS)
2. Search our database (EvidenceAlerts, ACCESSSS) for high quality studies, reviews, and evidence-based guidelines, and see how your peers have rated them (MORE)

What is the difference between EvidenceAlerts and ACCESSSS?

EvidenceAlerts is a free service that searches the McMaster PLUS database for the highest quality studies, reviews, and evidence-based guidelines on diagnosis, prognosis, prediction, prevention, primary prevention, therapeutics, quality improvement, treatment harm, and economics of health problems. In addition, link to DynaMed to get fast answers to clinical questions at the point of care (subscription may be required).

ACCESSSS is a free service to help provide current best evidence for clinical decisions. It allows users to conduct searches simultaneously across several evidence-based information services (online evidence-based texts, evidence-based guidelines, and the McMaster PLUS database) and presents them organized according to the evidence pyramid. 

Both services include:

• E-mail alerts about new evidence, tailored to the user’s interest profile and adjustable for their time demands. Each alert includes MORE clinical ratings and comments, and electronic links to the article’s abstract via PubMed and full text (if available).
• Links to full text articles and summaries for free full text articles and DynaMed topics (a subscription or fee may be needed for some of these articles and summaries).
• A cumulative searchable database of the alerts that is continuously updated (from 2003 forward).
• Personalized alert settings allowing each user to register their health care interests, leading to matching of those interests to the appropriate “virtual” subset of the accumulating database.
• Hit Parade of articles most frequently accessed in PLUS in the past 90 days.