Research, evidence and analysis for health-care decision-makers: The READ Portal

The Centre for Health Care Management at UBC has created a new resource to help health-care managers keep up with evidence from peer-reviewed journals, the grey literature (reports from government, NGOs and other organizations), as well as commentary in the media. The beta version of this new portal, called READ, is now being updated regularly.

From the About page

This site is run by the Centre for Health Care Management at the University of British Columbia and aims to provide health care decision-makers with current articles, news items, reports, and publications that are of professional interest. Our focus is on Canadian gray literature (articles that are not published in peer-reviewed articles or publishing firms, such as: government reports, corporate reports, studies conducted by private organisations), however we will also post original book reviews and links to items of particular interest in peer-reviewed journals and the mass media.

One may keep up with new items via Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feeds.

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