Evidence-Based Nursing Resource Guide
- Evidence Based Nursing
Overview and definitions prepared by the University of Minnesota - 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
- 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 - RCN Clinical Guidelines
Practice guidelines from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in the United Kingdom
- 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
- CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature VCU
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 VCU
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 - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
A database maintained by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York as part of the National Institute for Health Research. DARE contains 15,000 abstracts of systematic reviews including over 6,000 quality assessed reviews and details of all Cochrane reviews and protocols. The database focuses on the effects of interventions used in health and social care. It is updated weekly. and may include reviews that have not yet been added to the Cochrane Library. - 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 VCU
The primary database of information in medical and health sciences fields including the International Nursing Index, a subset of MEDLINE - Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library (VHINL) database
This database includes the Registry of Nursing Research sponosored by 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
E-Journals that focus on Evidence-Based Practice:
- ACP Journal Club VCU
- Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing VCU
- Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative MedicineVCU
- Evidence-based Nursing VCU
- Evidence-based Healthcare VCU
- Evidence-based Healthcare and Public HealthVCU
- Bandolier
- EBM Online
- Worldviews on evidence-based nursing VCU
- 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. - PubMed Clinical Queries or Systematic Reviews Filters
Filters designed by the National Library of Medicine based on the work of RB Haynes et al.
- 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 crtical 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 - EBM Page Generator
A tool developed by the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries and the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library of Yale University to help you create your own evidence based practice web page - Teaching/Learning Resources for Evidence Based Practice
Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health at Middlesex University includes explanation of four part PICO model - Evidence-Based Practice
A tutorial developed by the University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library
- Evidence-Based Practice: Implementation Strategies for Nurses
Resources compiled by Peg Allen for a presentation in 2002 - Evidence-Based Nursing Practice: Needs, Tools, Solutions
Abstracts, references and links from the 2003 Nursing and Allied Health Section (Medical Library Association) Symposium on evidence based nursing - 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 - Centre for Reviews and Dissemination University of York
Center established by the University of York dedicated to furthering evidence based nursing - Evidence-Based Practice Resource Center
Useful site compiled by the Oncology Nursing Society - Research Resources for Evidence Based Nursing
Resources compiled by McGill University. - Research Utilization and Evidence-Based Practice
A self-paced tutorial prepared by New York University - Users' Guides to Evidence Based Practice
Users' Guides, originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and maintained by the Centre for Health Evidence