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Content: EBSCO’s nursing database covering biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and allied health disciplines.
Purpose: Database for research in nursing, medicine, and consumer health.
Special Features: Strong qualitative studies. Filter studies by nurse as author, evidence-based practice, and type of study. Includes MESH indexing, PICO search functionality, text-to-speech feature for some articles, and a tool for discovering citing articles.
Content: Database of intervention focused systematic reviews.
Purpose: Learn the effectiveness of interventions proven through evidence-based research.
Special Features: Includes MESH and PICO search functionality.
Content: Comprehensive consumer health resource providing authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.
Purpose: Provides background reading on health issues. Check the "Refereed publications" box to find peer-reviewed, scholarly articles.
Special Features: A broad collection of premier full-text reference works, Spanish editions of notable content and a Spanish-language search filter, streaming video, audio, and images
Content: Biomedical and health journals. Provides MESH subject headings and offers the full text of many popular MEDLINE-indexed journals that are not available in other databases.
Purpose: Informs users about health and medicine topics
Special Features: Includes text-to-speech function for some articles
Content: A point-of-care, evidence-based clinical resource.
Purpose: Useful for quick information about conditions, drugs, etc.
Special Features: You will be prompted to create an account the first time you log into UpToDate that will allow you to search UpToDate and save reports using the default windows in Chrome or Firefox. The registration link might not work if you use a Chrome incognito window or Firefox private window.
MESH
The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus is a controlled and hierarchically-organized vocabulary produced by the National Library of Medicine. Use MeSH in CINAHL and PubMed to conduct research on medical/clinical topics.
Watch this video on using MeSH in PubMed.
Watch this video on using CINAHL's Subject Headings.
PICO
PICO is a format for developing a good clinical research question prior to starting one’s research. Use the PICO format in CINAHL and Cochrane to search for scholarly articles about interventions.
Read this flipbook on conducting a PICO search in Cochrane.
Search for articles, books, dissertations, and more
To maximize your time and effectiveness in the research process, take advantage of some of the following search techniques that can be applied to many databases, including article databases, the library catalog, and commercial search engines.
Boolean searching involves connecting terms and concepts using the words AND, OR, and NOT in order to narrow or expand your search.
Quotation marks can be used to tell the databases to search for exact phrases, names, and multi-word terms.
Truncation is a technique used to broaden your search. Truncation searches multiple forms of a root word to include various word endings and spellings.
Parentheses determine the order in which the database will search terms and Boolean Operators.
