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The 13th Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine teaching and learning EBM 5-day workshop in Oxford in September was, as usual, a lot of fun. And as usual, tutoring meant I learnt a lot from the group. One key learning this year was the value of BMJUpdates as a search engine. Over a number of searches my group compared several database engines including PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, and BMJUpdates. The verdict was unanimous: for speed and quality BMJUpdates was the clear winner. It won because of the high-quality filters: "less is more" we all said. A simple word or small set of search terms would often find just the articles we wanted. BMJUpdates is free—and part of the engine behind the EBM journal. Roughly the yearly breakdown is: MEDLINE adds 600 000 articles from 3500 journals; MORE (McMaster Online Rating System) scans 120 of these journals, which includes about 50 000 articles; about
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