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NUR 611: Advanced Health Assessment with Integrated Pathopharmacology

This guide was developed to help you navigate the library's website and select the best resources for this course.

Online Indexes and Databases

Video: Finding a Specific Article when you have the Citation

Using Cochrane

Cochrane databases that index articles, reports, and full record reviews:

  • Cochrane Reviews (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews)
    Collection of full text reviews (some over 100 pages) that synthesize the results of many individual studies on a topic from numerous articles and unpublished sources.

  • Other Reviews (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects/DARE)
    Contains citations and enhanced abstracts of reviews not covered by the Cochrane Collaboration. Maintained by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York, England.

  • Clinical Trials (Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials)
    Provides citations to controlled trials in articles, conference proceedings and unpublished trials.

Cochrane databases that cover related material:

  • Methods Studies (Cochrane Methodology Register)
    Bibliographic database of articles and books on methods used in controlled trials and in preparing reviews.

  • Technology Assessments (Health Technology Assessment Database)
    "Brings together details of health technology asssessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world."

  • Economic Evaluations (NHS Economic Evaluation Database)
    Abstracts of articles on economic evaluations of health care interventions, such as analysis of cost benefit, cost effectiveness, or cost utility.

  • Cochrane Groups (About the Cochrane Collaboration)
    "The Cochrane Collaboration is divided into groups: The Cochrane Review Groups, each of which focuses on a specific health care area. Fields that draw together healthcare issues impacting on many review groups; a Consumer Network, that represents the interests of healthcare consumers; Methods Groups develop methodological techniques; Centres with geographic and linguistic responsibilities; and a Steering Group, which is the the policy and decision-making body of the Collaboration

Locate EB Articles-CINAHL/MEDLINE/PUBMED

Try these Search Strategies for locating Evidence Based Articles:

Adapted from Nancy Curtis' NUR 505 guide (UMO)

Search Target
CINAHL
MEDLINE
PUBMED

Meta-Analysis or Systematic Review. These approaches can also be used to find literature on diagnosis, therapy, etc.

Limits – Select Refine Search, Publication Type:

  1. Select:
    Systematic Review
    • Note: this may not retrieve all review articles.
  2. Also try:
    • Clinical Trial
    • Practice Guidelines
    • Protocol
    • Research
    • Review
    • Standards
  3. Clear previous limits and check box adjacent to Evidence-Based Practice. [Note: includes systematic reviews & meta-analyses but only from a pre-selected list of journals published since 2001+]

Limits – Cinahl Headings:

  • Literature Review (explode)
  • Meta Analysis
  • Professional Practice, Evidence based (explode)
  • Systematic Review

 

For an intervention search use clinical trial. Repeat search using research


Limits - Select Refine Search, Publication Type:

  • Clinical Trial
  • Consensus Development Conferences
  • Guideline
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Multicenter Study Review (or more specific review types)

 

Limits – MeSH Headings

  • Clinical Trials
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Review Literature (explode)

 

Note: If check EBM Review box, results likely to be limited.

Consult find systematic reviews to locate:

  • Meta-analysis
  • Systematic reviews
  • Reviews of clinical trials
  • Evidence-based medicine
  • Consensus development conferences
  • Guidelines