The following is a selected list of websites that you may find useful.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Provides a series of Evidence Reports to develop scientific information for other agencies and organizations on which to base clinical guidelines, performance measures, and other quality improvement tools.
Best Practice Guidelines
Developed by the Royal Nurses Association of Ontario. Designed to provide nurses with evidence-based recommendations regarding assessment and/or screening in a variety of practice settings. Includes 29 published guidelines as well as a Toolkit and Educator's Resource to support implementation.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Produced by Oxford University, and one of the leading worldwide centers for evidence-based medicine. Contains information about learning, doing and teaching EBM as well as some useful analytical tools.
Evidence-Based Nursing
A University of Toronto site with sample scenarios, search strategies and completed worksheets for Evidence-Based Nursing.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. You can browse the guidelines by disease/condition, by treatment/intervention, or by the name of the submitting organization. Guidelines are abstracted into a standardized format and easy to compare.
Use the advanced search: it lets you limit your searches by domain names,allowing you to choose to avoid commercial sites, choose sites from a specific country, or retrieve only sites from non-profit organizations, for example. Cutting down the huge numbers of items you retrieve will save you time!
Use Google Scholar if you want only scholarly writings. Many, though not all, of these will have been published in journals or books, not just on the Internet.
Never pay for an article online without talking to us first! One of the downsides of using Google is that you may think you have to buy an article that's available through the USM libraries. When in doubt, check with the library staff.