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FOLEY DATABASES:
CINAHL - Start with this database for all nursing topics. See the tutorials below and for more help using CINAHL click here: http://support.ebscohost.com/cinahl
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions.
Stat!Ref - A searchable collection of full-text healthcare reference resources
EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE RESOURCES and chart showing levels of evidence
Evidence Levels - From the website of the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Victoria, Australia
WEB-BASED DATABASES FOR EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE:
Trip Database - Clinical Search Engine - Search engine designed to help clinicians find evidence based information on the web. Sign up for a free account for additional services. Nursing students - look for the Search Wizard link at the bottom of the page for help with PICO research.
EBP TUTORIALS
University of Washington Health Sciences Library has excellent resources on Evidence Based Practice. While only UW students may access UW databases, but Foley Library has some of the same and much of the EBP information here is available to all.
UW tutorial - PICO - http://healthlinks.washington.edu/ebp/pico.html
EBP Tutorial from UNC-Chapel Hill http://www.hsl.unc.edu/services/tutorials/ebm/welcome.htm (CREDITS: Tutorial by Connie Schardt, Duke University Medical Center Library and Jill Mayer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library. Robert Ladd, HSL at UNC-Chapel Hill, designed the graphics and the user interface.)
TUTORIALS
CINAHL - Part 1 - Basic Search
CINAHL - Part 2 - Subject Headings
CINAHL - Part 3 - Working with results
How to find META-ANALYSES in CINAHL and PubMed. (Created by the librarians at Eastern Michigan University Halle Library.)
PUBMED
Start with THIS one. This tutorial guides you through the process of creating a My NCBI account and shows you how to make the connection to our library's resources.
ALL NLM PubMed TUTORIALS: These tutorials created by the National Library of Medicine are very good and very detailed.
RefWorks and PubMed (PDF) - Tutorial from RefWorks
PubMed tutorials & handouts from Foley Center Library. (Coming Soon!)
Very basic PubMed search
Another way to get PubMed references into RefWorks (PDF)
Medline ? PubMed? What's the difference? (PDF?)
OTHER HELPFUL FOLEY TUTORIALS & HANDOUTS (under construction)
Introduction to Foley Library
Subject Headings
Periodicals@Foley
Worksheet for RefWorks beginners.
What is PRIMO (and how does it work)?
