Best Databases for EBP Searching
- Cochrane Library (Wiley) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Evidence based health care, nursing, and medicine. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research and care plans. Includes: Peer-reviewed systematic reviews, clinical trials, and protocols. Cochrane reviews are recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based healthcare.
- Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence Based Practice Database This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Evidence based medicine. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research and care plans. Includes: Brief, peer-reviewed evidence summaries.
- CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Nursing and allied health. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Most comprehensive set of scholarly journals out of all the nursing databases.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and more. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals and treatment guidelines.
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- CEBM Centre for Evidence-Based MedicineThe CEBM aims to develop, teach and promote evidence-based health care through a variety of methods so that all healthcare professionals can maintain the highest standards of medicine.
- CochraneCochrane is a non-profit, non-governmental organization formed to organize medical research findings so as to facilitate evidence-based choices about health interventions faced by health professionals, patients, and policy makers.
- Introduction to Evidence-Based PracticeThis tutorial was developed by staff at Duke University Medical Center Library and the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare by Call Number: ALT RT42 .M44 2015ISBN: 9781451190946Publication Date: 2014-10-02Develop the skills and knowledge you need to make evidence-based practice an integral part of your clinical decision making and everyday nursing practice with Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare.
