Nursing
General guide for library research in Nursing
Evidence-Based Practice Information
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
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Evidence-based information about medical treatments and therapies, designed for medical caregivers and patients.
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- Johns Hopkins Center for Evidence-Based Practics"The Johns Hopkins Nursing Center for Evidence-Based Practice provides best practices, leadership, support and training, and research to assist nurses in bringing the best available evidence into practice."
- Virginia Henderson Global Nursing e-RepositoryFree database of study abstracts, conference abstracts, dissertations, full-text articles, videos and audio files.
The Evidence Pyramid
The Evidence-Based Medicine Pyramid is a model for ranking sources of evidence. The higher ranks of evidence (i.e. those nearer the top of the pyramid) represent more reliably predictable outcomes than the lower ranks. Find much more information from the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries.
PICOT Resources
- PICO/PICOT/PICOTTExplains what PICO is and why to use it. Also has list of more resources. (guide created by the University of North Carolina Health Sciences Library)
- Evidence Based Medicine: PICOExplanation and links to more resources (guide created by the University of Illinois at Chicago's Library of the Health Sciences at Peoria)
