LibGuides: Evidence Based Nursing: Resources for Finding Reviews

Recap of Resources

Start here if you're beginning your research. Remember to use limits to focus your dates, types of research, and scholarly journals.

CINAHL Complete (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Not only can you search for EBM articles, but you can also view EBM worksheets that explain a clinical issue's trends and provides recommendations for practice.
Cochrane Library (Wiley) This link opens in a new window
Over 5000 reviews of research on medical treatments, practices, and diagnostic tests are provided in this database. Cochrane Reviews is the premier resource for Evidence Based Practice.
PubMed (NLM) This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

Cochrane Reviews

The Cochrane Library provides "high quality evidence for health care decision making" using criteria for conducting its systematic reviews. Within Cochrane Library, there are six databases containing evidence or reviews of healthcare and health policy:

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - includes peer reviewed systematic reviews
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials - information about trials from articles mostly found in MEDLINE
Cochrane Methodology Register - a bibliography of books, articles, and other resources from MEDLINE relating to methods used in trials
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects - Contains abstracts of systematic reviews
Health Technology Assessment Database - identifies current health technology studies
NHS Economic Evaluation Database - information about the cost effectiveness of current health care

Evidence Based Review Sources

Bandolier
Reviews from Oxford scholars are provided in this resource.
DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects)
This British database of reviews is provided by NHS Centre for Reviews
and Dissemination.
Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
This journal is made freely available via PubMed.
Trip Medical Database
A free database that identifies clinical evidence for clinical practice.
JAMA Evidence
JAMA Evidence helps health professionals "identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care. "

PubMed (NLM) This link opens in a new window
PubMed allows you to examine current scholarly information related to EBP, including studies from clinical trials for human and animal subjects.