Evidence Based Practice

This guide is designed to provide information on what Evidence Based Practice is and how to find evidence.

Databases for finding Evidence Based Practice resources

Now that you have formulated your question, and have your search strategy, where do you go to find your information?

Below is a list of the major databases we use when searching for quality evidence.

Some resources are freely available to search for scholarly information. However, CQUniversity Library plays a critical role in accessing the research literature, as the Library pays for subscription licenses to scholarly publications, allowing you significantly more access to full-text resources. Your hospital library in the clinical setting may also provide full text access to some of these resources.

You may also find this Library Guide useful: Using Health and Medical Databases

CINAHL Complete
Key resource for nursing, midwifery and allied health, which provides full text access to a large number of the journals indexed.
Cochrane Library
Collection of databases providing full-text access to evidence based practice material. It provides evidence for clinical, technological & economic decisions made by health professionals & organisations.
Free to all Australian residents.
Google Scholar
Enables searching of scholarly literature from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Link Google Scholar to CQU Library collections
Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence-based Practice
Evidence-based resources and tools designed to assist in the clinical decision making process and to support best practice. Resources include systematic reviews and protocols, recommended practices, best practices information sheets, consumer information sheets, and evidence summaries. Access via Ovid includes access to EBP Tools such as SUMARI, a tool for appraising systematic reviews.
MEDLINE
Key index of the health and medical literature, produced by the US National Library of Medicine. Coverage includes research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues and health care services.
Help: MEDLINE LibGuide
PubMed
A key index of the health, medical and life sciences literature, provided by the US National Library of Medicine. PubMed includes MEDLINE, and some additional content not covered by MEDLINE.Medline, PubMed and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different
Trip Pro
Clinical search engine enabling users to find high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Content includes systematic reviews, evidence-based synopses, clinical guidelines, controlled trials, clinical Q&A and patient information.

Useful resources

For more information about the databases mentioned above, check out the Using Health and Medical Databases Library Guide.

You may also like to have a look at some of these videos about searching Cinahl and Cochrane:

CINAHL

COCHRANE