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*Occupational Therapy: Evidence-Based Practice

Library and web resources to support the Occupational Therapy program.

What is Evidence Based Practice?

Databases

Other EBP Websites or Search Engines

Core Databases

Other Databases

Article Linker & Full-Text

Article Linker icon

Watch this video to better understand how to get the full-text of an article, when you see the article linker icon.

Article Linker video title page

AOTA Evidence-Based Resources

AOTA's website has an excellent EBP Resource Directory, as well as an Evidence Exchange for CAPs. CATs are found in the EBP Topics. Use your student AOTA login to access these.

 

AOTA has also published a series of EBP guidelines...you can find these in URSUS by doing a title or keyword search for Practice guidelines series. Note: all the current guidelines are Reference:Library Use Only.

Finding the Evidence

A helpful guide on Resources for Evidence-Based Practice: the 6S Pyramid with PICO was developed by the Health Sciences Library at McMaster University. Keep in mind that they may have links that do not open for USM students.

One good article can lead to others!