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Evidence-Based Nursing Resource Guide 2008

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Definitions:

• Glossary of EBM Terms
  Compiled by the Mt. Sinai Hospital Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.
• Key Terms in EBP
  A glossary of key terms developed by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine.

Best Practice Guidelines:

• National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)
  A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
• Best Practice Guidelines
  Best Practice Guidelines developed by Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) as part of their nursing best practice guidelines project begun in 1999.
• Best Practice Information Sheets
  Summary information on best practice guidelines by the Joanna Briggs Institute of Australia. The guideline summaries are searchable.

Databases:

• CINAHL - Ebsco
  Leading research from publications in the fields of nursing and allied health from 1982 to the present.
• ClinicalTrials.gov
  ClinicalTrials.gov currently contains approximately 11,300 clinical studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, other federal agencies, and private industry on a wide range of diseases and conditions. ????
• Cochrane Library
  The Cochrane Library provides access via the web to reliable information compiled by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international network of individuals and institutions committed to preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic, up-to-date reviews of the effects of health care. ???
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC), a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ???
• PubMed MEDLINE
  The primary database of information in medical and health sciences fields including the International Nursing Index, a subset of MEDLINE.
• STTI Registry of Nursing Research
  Searchable database of over 10,000 nursing research studies; from Sigma Theta Tau International, the International Honor Society of Nursing.
• TRIP(Turning Research in Practice)
  TRIP was created in 1997 to bring together all the 'evidence-based' healthcare resources available on the Internet.

Online Journals:

      E-Journals that focus on Evidence-Based Practice:

• ACP Journal Club CCCL
• Evidence-based Nursing CCCL
• Nursing Research CCCL
• Research in Nursing and Health CCCL
• Western Journal of Nursing Research CCCL
• Users Guide to the Medical Literature CCCL
  An online tool to guide clinicians in the appraisal and application of evidence into their everyday practice.

Filters and Search Strategies:

• Evidence-Based Practice Filters for CINAHL via Ebscohost
  VCU Filters based on work of the University of Rochester for CINHAL via Ebscohost for VCU users to automatically execute.
• Finding the Evidence on PubMed
  Filters for PubMed developed by staff of Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
• Evidence-Based Nursing Filters (CINAHL)
  Filters for CINAHL developed by the Hardin Library, University of Iowa based on filters developed by the Minor Library, University of Rochester.
• Evidence-Based Nursing Filters (CINAHL)
  Filters for CINAHL for diagnosis, etiology, prognosis, therapy, meta-analysis, and qualitative research developed by the Arizona Health Sciences Library.
• Search Strategies to Identify Reviews and Meta-analyses in MEDLINE and CINAHL
  Strategies developed by the University of York.
• PubMed Clinical Queries or Systematic Reviews Filters
  Filters designed by the National Library of Medicine based on the work of RB Haynes et al.

Models and Tools:

• Evidence Based Nursing
  Tutorial on what evidence based practice is with five case scenarios prepared by the University of Minnesota.
• Focusing Clinical Questions--PICO
  Table to help you frame questions using the PICO structure.
• Resources for Evidence-Based Nursing
  Evidence-Based Practice is a five-step process as outlined by the Health Sciences Library at McMaster University.
• Critical Appraisal
  Tools developed by the Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine to assist in the critical appraisal of research articles.
• ACE Star Model of the Cycle of Knowledge Transformation
  Model for evidence-based practice by K. R. Stevens of the Academic Center for Evidence Based Nursing at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio.
• A Guide to Research Methods
  Illustrates and explains the various research studies such as double-blind, cohort, randomized controlled etc. Prepared by SUNY Downstate Medical Center Medical Research Library of Brooklyn.
• Method for Grading Health Care Recommendations
  Recommendations from the Center for Health Care Evidence.
• Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendation
  Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.
• EBM Toolkit
  An assortment of materials which are very useful for practitioners of evidence-based practice complied by the Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.
• Evidence Based Practice Tutorial for Nurses
  A tutorial developed by Penn State University Libraries to help nurses understand the steps in evidence based practice.
• Evidence Based Public Health Nursing
  Resources compiled by University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences, the Illinois department of Public Health and the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. This site includes an online tutorial that developed to enhance the search skills of public health nurses and others.
• Evidence-Based Practice Resource Center
  Useful site compiled by the Oncology Nursing Society.
• Research Utilization and Evidence-Based Practice
  A self-paced tutorial prepared by New York University.

Bibliographies:

• Nesbit Guide to Evidence-Based Resources
  Links to resources from the Miner Library at the University of Rochester.
• Evidence-Based Practice Resources on the World Wide Web
  List of resources links compiled by the Academic Center for Evidence-Base Nursing by University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
• Evidence Based Nursing
  Links to resources, articles, tools and other information on evidence based nursing compiled by the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina.
• Evidence-Based Medicine
  List of resources compiled by librarians at Tompkins-McCaw Library.