Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

• Cochrane Library
• Joanna Briggs Best Practice Sheets (the library does not subscribe to most of the content on this site)
• CINAHL and MEDLINE (see Research and Evidence Filter sections below)

Practice Guidelines

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• EPC Evidence Reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• VA / DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Nursing Best Practice Guidelines of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
• Additional sites

Research

• CINAHL Basics printable guide
• CINAHL Headings printable guide
• Watch a CINAHL evidence search (opens in a new window)
• Perform a live CINAHL search yourself

Evidence Filters

If the evidence filter links do not function properly, copy and paste the search strategy into the appropriate database. You will be linked to this page in the interaction portion of this tutorial, as well as in the Review section, which is located on the main menu.

Important Step: Once you have deployed the filter, you must click the search button. This step puts the filtered search into the history and allows you to combine it with your other search terms later.

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")))