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Evidence Search

(NICE) National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Search evidence on health, drugs and technologies, public health, social care, and healthcare management , from UK sources, including the British National Formulary, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, SIGN, the Cochrane Library and Royal Colleges, Social Care Online and GOV.UK.
TRIP database
As a medical database, a smart, fast tool to find high quality clinical research evidence.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making; Includes over 7,500 Systematic Reviews.

Evidence Information

The Community Guide (CPSTF)
From USA.gov, a collection of evidence-based findings of the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF). It is a resource to help you select interventions to improve health and prevent disease in your state, community, community organization, business, healthcare organization, or school.
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The CPSTF makes evidence-based recommendations about the
effectiveness and economics of public health programs, services,
and other interventions used in real-world settings—such as
communities, worksites, schools, faith-based organizations,
military bases, public health clinics and departments, and
integrated healthcare systems.

Search Strategies

CINAHL with Full Text This link opens in a new window
To limit your subject search results by research study types, in the Search Options section in the Basic or Advanced search, find the “Publication Type” limit, and select the desired type of study, such as Clinical Trial, Randomized Controlled Trial or Systematic Review. Hold down the “Ctrl” key to select more than one publication type. Once you have selected the desired publication types, click Search.

For study types that are not listed in the “Publication Type” limit box, search using the word "study" or "trial" as one of your keywords.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
To limit your subject search results by research study types, on the left margin of your search results, under Article Types, click the type of study you want to find. If the type of study you want is not displayed, click "additional filters" at the bottom, and choose from the resulting list all the study types you would like to display, then click "Show", and the selected study types will display in the left margin.

Click each type of study you would like included in your in your results, holding down the Control key to select more than one type. Note: "Clinical Trial" will include all individual phases of clinical trials, and will also include Randomized Controlled Trials.

For study types that are not listed as Article Types, like "cohort studies" or "longitudinal studies," search these as keywords and use the AND operator to combine with your topic search results.