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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:

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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!

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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

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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

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

 Limit to:
 Systematic Reviews
 Guidelines-US

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