If you're looking for independent, evidence-based information on common issues in primary care and clinical practice, you’ll find it here. You may also wish to visit our Evidence Bundles on diabetes, pain, opioids, medical cannabis, and mental health.

We’ve selected the following materials to get you started:

• Non-Drug Ways to Manage Chronic Pain (Tools, September 8, 2020)
  Resources for people living with chronic pain and resources for clinicians.
• Capsaicin for Acute or Chronic Non-Cancer Pain: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness, Safety, and Cost-Effectiveness (Summary With Critical Appraisal, July 13, 2020)
• Needleless Injectors for the Administration of Vaccines: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness (Summary With Critical Appraisal, July 17, 2020)
• Using technology to link more patients with mental health services: Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Hospital News Article, April 15, 2020)
• Skin Preparation for Injections: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness and Guidelines (Summary With Critical Appraisal, April 6, 2020)
• Evaluating the Credibility of Health Websites: Can You Trust Dr. Google? (Tools, March 25, 2020)
  Tips and resources for determining whether a health website contains reliable health information
• Evidence Highlights: Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Major Depression and Anxiety Disorders (Tool, July 2019)
  This summary tool includes a brief background on cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of major depression and anxiety disorders; a brief description of internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy, the current status of its use in Canada, and its role in the treatment of major depression and anxiety disorders; and evidence highlights from the clinical, economic, patients’ perspectives, ethical, and implementation analyses.