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An Explanation of Evidence Based
Nursing Practice Resources
Summaries of the Evidence
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- Created by the Cochrane Collaboration
- Small collection of reviews on the effects of health
care
- Reviews generally focus on patient treatment and
therapy issues
- Stringent protocols are applied to each review
- Individual documents take a long time to develop
because of the intensive review process
Joanna Briggs Institute
- Australian based nursing oriented Evidence-based
resource
- Provides access to a very limited number of
resources without payment, a charge is required for
access to others. Penn State does not have a
subscription to this service.
- An international collaboration of 200 researchers,
clinicians, academics and quality managers
- The Institute provides education and training in the
process of conducting systematic reviews; the
development of Best Practice Information Sheets; the
implementation of evidence-based practice; and more.
Clinical Evidence
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- Published by the British Medical Journal
- Summaries of the current state of knowledge related
to clinical conditions
- Focus is on prevention and treatment of clinical
conditions
- Based on thorough searches and appraisals of the
literature
- Covers 22 specialties and over 150 conditions
- Peer-reviewed by section editors and 3 external
expert clinicians
- Updated frequently
Evidence-Based Clinical Practice
Guidelines
AHRQ Evidence Reports
- Produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ), a federal agency
- Supports health services research
- Mission to improve the quality of healthcare and
promote evidence-based decision making
- Evidence-based guidelines, not consensus-based
guidelines
- Provide directions for handling certain clinical
conditions
- Guidelines often published by specialty societies,
i.e. American Heart Association, American Academy of
Pediatrics
National Guidelines Clearinghouse
- Produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality, the AMA and The American Association of Health
Plans
- Provides summaries of each guideline and the
development process
- Provides links to full-text guidelines, if
available, and/or ordering information for print copies
Critically Appraised Research Studies (CAT’s)
ACP Journal Club
- Produced by the American College of Physicians
- Provides access to over 2000 critical appraisals of
clinical research articles
- Editors screen top clinical journals for relevant,
methodologically sound studies
Evidence-Based Nursing Journal
- Produced by nurses for nurses
- Focuses on evidence-based practice nursing issues
- Special features: “Purpose and Procedure,” “EBN
Notebook” and a glossary of
evidence-based health care terms
Additional evidence-based journals include:
Databases
CINAHL (Cumulated Index for Nursing and Allied Health
Literature)
CINAHL Nursing database through
Ebsco
Pre-CINAHL is a current awareness database of new
journal articles.
- Major database for the nursing and allied health
literature from 1982-Present
- Includes citations (link to glossary) for journal
articles, book chapters, nursing dissertations, research
instruments, educational software and selected
conference proceedings
- Provides access to selected full-text sources:
Critical Paths, Clinical Innovations, Standards of
Practice and more
PubMed Clinical Queries
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- A subset of PubMed designed for clinicians looking
for “evidence”
- The National Library of Medicine states that the
Systematic Reviews option retrieves citations for
“systematic reviews, meta-analyses, reviews of clinical
trials, evidence-based medicine, consensus development
conferences, guidelines, and citations to articles from
journals specializing in clinical review studies.”
Electronic Textbooks
UpToDate – On Campus Use Only
- Physician experts write the content in 15 medical
specialties
- Provides comprehensive, practical answers to
questions about patient care
- Content reviewed continually and updated every 4
months
MDConsult
- Produced for physicians to answer clinical questions
- Provides access to full-text books and journals,
clinical practice guidelines, patient hand-outs and drug
information
Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice
- Clinically focused guide covering all disorders and
patient problems in Medical-Surgical, Maternal-Neonatal,
Pediatric, and Psychiatric nursing
- Patient assessment and official treatment guidelines
incorporated into each chapter
- Includes step-by-step guides to procedures
Links to other evidence based resources:
ACP Medicine
BestBETS
EBM Online
SUMSearch
TripDatabase
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