Designed to familiarize health science students with concepts and strategies used in EBP. Includes levels of evidence, question formulation (PICO), and information sources for evidence.
Formerly known as the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, AHRQ sponsors research to help people make informed decisions and to improve the quality of health care services. Includes Clinical Practice Guidelines.
The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature database indexes more than 5,300 journals and provides full text for 1,400 journals. Includes research instruments, clinical trials, and continuing education modules.
Focused primarily on systematic reviews that evaluate the effects of health care interventions and the delivery and organization of health services. Includes the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED). Hosted by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York (UK).
Evidence-based resource, providing quick reference at the point-of-care including: disease and condition overviews, evidence-based care sheets, nursing cultural competencies, patient education handouts, and point-of-care drug information.
Searches both CINAHL, MEDLINE, and a number of other health resources.
Includes Journals@Ovid and indexing information from MEDLINE, the United States National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database. Has options to limit to 'Ovid Full Text Available' and to ' Include Related Terms' using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) is a free database of over 38,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
PEDro is produced by Musculoskeletal Health Sydney, School of Public Health at the University of Sydney and is hosted by Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).
Citations and/or summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports for psychology and related disciplines from nearly 2500 journals,
Journal coverage: 1800's - present. Indexing from 1600's - present.
PubMed, a free National Library of Medicine database, includes over 27 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's.
These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. For help, view the tutorial Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice.
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A clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.
