Database Links - Appropriate Library Databases for a Literature Review
When searching for individual research studies in healthcare, CINAHL and PubMed should be used. CINAHL is the major database for nursing and allied health literature. PubMed is a way to search MEDLINE, the major database of literature in the biomedical sciences.
Google and Google Scholar are NOT sufficient for doing a good literature search in health care, although you can use Google Scholar to supplement your searches in subject specific databases.
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CINAHLSearch journal literature related to nursing and the allied health disciplines. Also contains early-release citations for pre-published journal articles.
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PubMedPubMed provides free access to the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) premier database – MEDLINE. Content is citations and abstracts from national and international journals covering all aspects of biomedicine including allied health and other fields as they relate to medicine or healthcare.
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APA PsycINFOAppropriate to search only if your PICO(T) question relates to psychology, psychiatry, mental health, or cognition-related topics.
How to find appropriate nursing and health research articles
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Peer Review in 3 Minutes (NCSU Libraries)From North Carolina State University Libraries. 3-minute video explaining peer-review.
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Research ToolkitResearch Toolkit workshops are designed to address the most common challenges students face in doing college-level research, including navigating databases, locating relevant sources, and making sense of information once it is found.
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Literature Search Help Using PICOVideos and resources on CINAHL and PubMed to help you search the literature using your PICO question.
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Evidence Evaluation Table - Template and Sample
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Evidence Evaluation Table TemplateCopy and paste from this template to create the columns for your own Evidence Evaluation Table. [Online-only content for “Critical Appraisal of the Evidence: Part I,” by Fineout-Overholt and colleagues in the American Journal
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Sample Evidence Evaluation Table - CompletedThis is an example of an Evidence Evaluation with all of the elements filled in. [Online-only content for “Critical Appraisal of the Evidence: Part III,” by Fineout-Overholt and colleagues in the American Journal of Nursing,
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More EBP Resources for Nursing"How to" links, tutorials, articles, and videos covering all aspects of the process of Evidence-Based Practice.
APA Style
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Citing Your Sources-APASeveral good sources to help you with APA style. The Purdue OWL is particularly recommended for easy to understand examples.
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Annotated Student Sample APA PaperFrom apastyle.org .
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