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Exploring the Literature

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CINAHL CINAHL is an SSU subscription-only resource that offers full text access to 336 scholarly journals and indexes over 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.

 Look at the Major Subject Heading in the Full Record

 Use the Limits Feature: o Example:

Publication Type=Systematic Review

 Try the CINAHL Heading search:

Keyword search: Limits: CINAHL Heading search: Limits:

PubMed PubMed is a free health science citation & abstracts index from the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

 Look at MeSH Terms in Full Record

 Use the Limits Feature: o Examples: Article

Type=Meta- Analysis; Age=All Adult

 Look for the open access Free articles!

Keyword search: Limits: MESH search: Limits:

Cochrane Library Cochrane Library provides access to the Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews. Full text of reviews are subscription only. Index/summaries are a public resource.

 Use the Simple Search and the Advance Search Features

 Allows you to search with MeSH Terms

 Check out the New Reviews

Browse reviews by topic

Keyword search: Limits: MESH search: Limits:

National Guidelines Clearinghouse The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

 Detailed search provides limits and advance search features

 Browse by Disease/Condition or Treatment/Intervention

 Add guidelines to “My Collection” and select Compare Guidelines to view side-by-side comparisons of principle data

Keyword search: Also browse by:

TRIP Database TRIP is a clinical search engine to locate publicly available clinical evidence.

 Limit to:  Systematic Reviews  Guidelines-US

Keyword search: Limits:

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