The best strategy when searching for EBP articles is to break your question into parts, search the disease or topic in question in CINAHL or Medline, and then apply one or more of the following search criteria.
Nursing practice that bases clinical decisions on research, clinical expertise, patient choices, and critical evaluation of the literature.
Nursing practice based on scientific research.
Indicates complete research study containing data collection, methodology, discussion of results, etc.
will restrict retrieval to this special interest topic, applied to selected records beginning in 1997.
indicates research study is either a clinical trial or a randomized clinical trial
Written plans specifying methods to be followed in performing various procedures
Set of directions or principles to assist health care practitioners with patient care decisions. Guidelines may be developed and issued by government agencies, expert panels.
indicates a research process in which a concept is identified and the original research studying that concept is analyzed and evaluated. The results are synthesized to present the current state of knowledge regarding the topic.
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