To help you with your searching, the library has provided evidence filters for the CINAHL and MEDLINE databases. These filters are like a "pre-search" that will allow you to focus in on articles that are evidentiary in nature.

Later in this tutorial, you will be able to perform or watch a video on an evidence filtered CINAHL search. It will take you through the filtered search steps.

Take a look at the publication types (ZT), subject headings (MH), and journals (TA or JN) that will help you find the evidence.

CINAHL Evidence Filter

(((ZT "ALGORITHM") or (ZT "CARE PLAN") or (ZT "CLINICAL INNOVATIONS") or (ZT "CLINICAL TRIAL") or (ZT "COMMENTARY") or (ZT "CRITICAL PATH") or (ZT "NURSING DIAGNOSES") or (ZT "NURSING INTERVENTIONS") or (ZT "PRACTICE GUIDELINES") or (ZT "PROCEEDINGS") or (ZT "PROTOCOL") or (ZT "RESEARCH") or (ZT "STANDARDS") or (ZT "SYSTEMATIC REVIEW")) or ((MH "Protocols+") or (MH "Nursing Process+") or (MH "Practice Guidelines") or (MH "Congresses and Conferences") or (MH "Professional Practice, Evidence-Based+") or (MH "Clinical Assessment Tools+") or (MH "Research+") or (MH "Diagnosis, Differential") or (MH "Risk Factors+") or (MH "Recurrence") or (MH "Time Factors") or (MH "Diagnostic Errors+") or (MH "Disease Progression") or (MH "Mortality+") or (MH "Morbidity+") or (MH "Outcomes (Health Care)+") or (MH "Prognosis+") or (MH "Placebos") or (MH "Patient Selection") or (MH "Ethnography") or (MH "Phenomenology")) or ((JN "ACP Journal Club") OR (JN "Bandolier") OR (JN "Best Practice") OR (JN "Cochrane Library") OR (JN "Health Technology Assessment") OR (JN "Online Journal of Clinical Innovations") OR (JN "Clinical Medicine & Research") OR (JN "Journal of Integrated Care") OR (JN "JBI Reports") OR (JN "Musculoskeletal Care") or SO evidence))

MEDLINE Evidence Filter

(((MH "Congresses ") or (MH "Data Collection ") or (MH "Diagnosis, Differential") or (MH "Diagnostic Errors ") or (MH "Risk Factors") or (MH "Recurrence") or (MH "Time Factors") or (MH "Disease Progression") or (MH "Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) ") or (MH "Prognosis ") or (MH "Placebos") or (MH "Algorithms") or (MH "Patient Care Planning ") or (MH "Nursing Process ") or (MH "Guidelines ") or (MH "Clinical Protocols ") or (MH "Evidence-Based Medicine") or (MH "Research ")) or ((TA "ACP J Club") or (TA "Clin Med Res") or (TA "Musculoskeletal Care") or (TA "Health Technol Assess Rep") OR (TA "Health Technol Assess (Rockv)") OR (TA "Health Technol Assess") or (TA "Cochrane Database Syst Rev") OR (TA "Med Manag Netw") OR (TA "J Herb Pharmacother") OR (TA "Pediatr Case Rev") OR (TA "Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol") OR (TA "Online J Knowl Synth Nurs") OR (TA "Chiropr Osteopat") or SO evidence) or ((ZT "CLINICAL TRIAL") or (ZT "CLINICAL TRIAL, PHASE I") or (ZT "CLINICAL TRIAL, PHASE II") or (ZT "CLINICAL TRIAL, PHASE III") or (ZT "CLINICAL TRIAL, PHASE IV") or (ZT "COMMENT") or (ZT "CONGRESSES") or (ZT "CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE") or (ZT "CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE, NIH") or (ZT "CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL") or (ZT "EVALUATION STUDIES") or (ZT "GUIDELINE") or (ZT "META-ANALYSIS") or (ZT "MULTICENTER STUDY") or (ZT "PRACTICE GUIDELINE") or (ZT "RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL") or (ZT "REVIEW") or (ZT "VALIDATION STUDIES")))

Note: These filters were designed for use in NU386. They are based on the filters found on the Virginia Commonwealth University Library website, which were developed by librarians at the University of Rochester, Ann McKibbon and Cindy Walker-Dilks of McMaster University. Information from CINAHL Information Systems was also used in the construction of these filters.