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EVIDENCE-BASED TOOLKIT FOR NURSING
RESOURCES
Do It Yourself Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews
Practice Guidelines from Specific Organizations
Practice Guidelines in OCLS Databases
Do It Yourself Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews
If no official EBM review has been done on your topic, these filters and hedges may be helpful in reducing the amount of literature you need to analyze.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowThe National Library of Medicine's database of 22 million citations in biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. With new weekly entries, PubMed is more current than MEDLINE and offers additional life science journals.
National Guidelines Clearinghouse
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines from more than 100 institutions and organizations. It is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans.
Professional Organizations such as the American Heart Association, the National Cancer Institute, the American Psychiatric Association or the American Academy of Pediatrics may post relevant evidence-based medicine reviews or practice guidelines based on EBM reviews on their Web sites.
At least some of these will be picked up by the National Guidelines Clearinghouse.
Practice Guidelines from Specific Organizations
- American Academy of Neurology - Practice Guidelines & Tools
- American Academy of Pediatrics - Clinical Practice Guidelines
- American Association for Respiratory Care - Clinical Practice Guidelines
- American College of Cardiology - Practice Guidelines & Quality Standards
- American College of Chest Physicians - Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines
- American College of Physicians - ACP Clinical Recommendations
- American Diabetes Association - Practice Guidelines Resources
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists - Policy Positions & Guidelines (Best Practices)
- Canadian Medical Association Infobase
- Infectious Diseases Society of America - Practice Guidelines
- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute - Clinical Practice Guidelines
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) - Clinical Guidelines
- NICE Guidance by Topic
- Registered Nurses Association of Onatario Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Royal College of Nursing Clinical Guidelines
Trip Database
A free clinical search engine, designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. As well as research evidence Trip also allow clinicians to search across other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news. Trip stands for "Translating Research Into Practice".
Practice Guidelines in OCLS Databases
In many of the IWU OCLS Nursing databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, Nursing Resource Center), you can limit your search to just practice guidelines - look for a limiter called "guidelines" or "practice guidelines", often found under "Publication Types".
These tools will help you to interpret the clinical and statistical significance of data reported in clinical research.
- Odds Ratio to NNT Converter
- Diagnostic Test Calculator
- Prospective Study Calculator
- Case Control Study Calculator
- Randomized Controlled Trial Calculator
- This calculator can determine diagnostic test characteristics (sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios) and/or determine the post-test probability of disease given given the pre-test probability and test characteristics. Given sample sizes, confidence intervals are also computed.
- From an Observed Sample: Estimates of Population Prevalence, Sensitivity, Specificity, Predictive Values, and Likelihood Ratios
- Predictive Values and Likelihood Ratios
