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Evidence-Based Practice - Places to Start

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Enter through "Find Articles and Magazines at WSU "

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ):
  National Guidelines Clearinghouse (http://www.guideline.gov/ ) Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses

Bandolier
UK site with good reviews, idiosyncratic index (http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/index.html )


PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
Enter through "Find Articles and Magazines at WSU "
Links to NANDA “EBN filters ” for PubMed

(Health-STAR (Health Services Technology, Administration, and Research) now incorporated in several NLM datasets.)

SUMSEARCH intriguing site which will "select the best Internet sites to search, format the query for each site, execute contingency searches, then return a single document to the clinician". From Univ of Texas Health Sci Center

CINAHL
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Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence Based in Nursing and Midwifery http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/about/about.php
Offers good definitions, some materials, links to other sources.


National Health Service Centre for Reviews and Dissemination Databases
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/aboutcrd.htm
The centre has played a leading role in the development and promotion of evidence informed decision making in health policy and practice.

BMJ Clinical Evidence (http://www.clinicalevidence.com ) subscription-based service, with some free information under EBM Resources

Nursing journals to be aware of:
Evidence-Based Nursing
Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Evaluating Research Articles 
WSU College of Nursing Checklist 
Colorado State University Brief (and Detailed ) Guides

help/EBP.htm RMP 05/12/09

 

 

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