Synopses are help you get answers fast. As Haynes says, "The perfect synopsis would provide exactly enough information to support a clinical action. . .for example 'Review: antibiotics do not lead to general improvement in upper respiratory tract infections.'" Any resource that provides an abstract of a single study, that answers a single clinical questions qualifies as a Synopses. Usually, though, questions are more complicated and require discussion of multiple studies, which I will discuss under Summaries.ACP Journal Club, Essential Evidence Plus(formerly known as InfoPoems), and Bandolier may be sources of synopses that you have heard of, as well as PURL's from the Journal of Family Practice, and Clinical Queries in PubMed.
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