Literature searches: formalising search and presentation of results

We run a number of literature searches for colleagues on a variety of topics. Personally I've used OVID Medline although I know other colleagues prefer PubMed - in OVID it's easy to tick a button to say 'include search strategy' when sending the results, I believe it's not too complicated to do so in PubMed either, or this can be copied and pasted.

We've decided to 'up our game' on the whole literature search 'thing' and document the processes more formally. As part of the new NHS accreditation process we're documenting certain processes in some detail anyway, but we'd like to be doing this even for our general enquiry service.

This will include (1) where we've searched (eg trusted locations such as Cochrane, and NHS Evidence as well as running literature searches and even considering 'grey literature'), (2) how we've searched (documenting our search strategies so that others can re-use or adapt them), and (3) any filters we've used (human, English language, review, years) and (3a) any ranking of the results.

We'll also be giving some thought to how we (4) present the results and (4a) how we seek feedback from the 'client'. Finally we need a process for (5) recording the enquiry / strategy and ensuring that we take any opportunity, either from client feedback or other great ideas that people have, to improve the processes by (6) continuing professional development.

Does anyone, particularly those working in medical health libraries, have a process in place from which we can pinch some ideas? I am suffering from blank page syndrome ;-)

Some of my thoughts below.
1. Locations to search (ie. search quality)
For grey literature I'd include things like ClinicalTrials.gov which lets you know what's coming over the horizon.
2. Search strategies / MeSH headings / explode / focus / keywords (search quality)
3. Filtering (eg selecting human / English language / review)
3a. Ranking the results by quality of evidence (in a sense this can be preselected by choosing a database with higher evidence quality)
4 & 4a. Presenting the results to the 'client' and seeking feedback - I think the feedback side of things is very important.
5. Saving / recording the search for future use
6. Continuing professional development

Collecting clinical database information - your help needed :)

What with krunchd.com disappearing [edit: it has since recovered] I'm storing some useful health / medical / drug databases here for now - it was a great resource for taking a bunch of links (up to 30) and giving you a single URL for sharing (each page could be viewed using a small drop-down menu).

Anyway, as I don't come from a library background (I only recently heard of the acronym 'PICO') I may well have missed some of the important databases. But I do work IN a library, so I don't want to miss any really!

Some come from memory, some from Trisha Greenhalgh's 'How to read a paper', and some from suggestions on the CLIN-LIB mailing list at Jiscmail. Some of them I'd not heard of / haven't used.

What have I missed? (I'll remember some myself the minute I press 'publish').

• AMED: http://www.library.nhs.uk/help/resource/amed
• Bandolier: http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/
• Best Practice: http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/welcome.html
• BMJ Clinical Evidence: http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/index.jsp
• British National Formulary (BNF): http://www.bnf.org/
• Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD): http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/
• Clinical Knowledge Summaries: http://www.cks.nhs.uk/home (formerly PRODIGY)
• Cochrane collaboration: http://www.cochrane.co.uk/en/index.html
• Dynamed: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/
• electronic Medicines Compendium: http://emc.medicines.org.uk/
• Medicines Complete: http://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/marketing/current/ / https://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/login.htm
• Map of Medicine http://eng.mapofmedicine.com/evidence/map/index.html
• NHS Evidence: http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/default.aspx
• NHS Evidence - diabetes: http://www.library.nhs.uk/diabetes/
• NICE: http://www.nice.org.uk/
• PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed
• SUMSearch: http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/
• TRIP database: http://www.tripdatabase.com/
• UpToDate: http://www.uptodate.com/home/index.html
• ZUMI eResources: http://www.zumi.co.uk/ (a collection of databases including many of the above and others)

EDIT 20.12.09
Added BMJ Clinical Evidence.
See also Spineless Blog's '10 websites to help you keep up to date with scholarly journal contents' http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/10-websites-to-help-you-keep-up-to-date-with-scholarly-journal-contents/ thanks to Zeno001 for highlighting this one.

EDIT 22.06.10
Added Map of Medicine.