The Evidence Pyramid provides a guide to levels of quality and the amount of research available at that level.
Bibliographic databases provide access to primary literature of all levels of the pyramid.
Point of Care Resources are secondary sources that bring together high-quality evidence to provide guidelines or recommendations for practice.
Walden University. (2020). Levels of evidence pyramid. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/library/healthevidence/evidencepyramid
The Medical Research Library of Brooklyn: SUNY Medical Center. (2014). The Evidence Pyramid. https://guides.downstate.edu/c.php?g=856794&p=6152125
PubMed is the free internet platform for searching Medline published by the US National Library of Medicine.
This database contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index and is the core research tool for nursing and allied health literature.
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
The world's most comprehensive full text source for fitness, health and sports studies journals.
A major source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology, from the APA and affiliates.
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, with journals, books and conference proceedings in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
A regularly updated collection of seven evidence-based medicine databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
UpToDate is an evidence-based clinical decision support tool, synthesizing the latest evidence to recommend best practices for thousands of conditions.
Australian medicines information resource designed to help healthcare professionals make confident clinical decisions, providing access to latest drug monographs, pharmaceutical company product information, consumer medicine information documents, product summaries and drug product images.
Note: Before you can access AusDI off campus or on your mobile, you must register for an account using a desktop PC or your laptop while on campus.
Clinical decision support tool for health professionals, providing step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
Therapeutic Guidelines is an Australian evidence-based resource which recommends therapies for common disorders seen in clinical practice.
Concise, up-to-date source of independent drug information to facilitate effective, rational, safe and economical prescribing and dispensing. recommendations.
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The key to successful database searching is to practice and use common search techniques along with Boolean searching. It is important to learn these so that you will be able to quickly retrieve relevant information. These videos by University of South Carolina Upstate Library explain some of the basic searching tricks and techniques that will enable you to create a more effective search.