Resources for Getting Evidence into Practice

Primary Sources - For-A-Fee Access

CINAHL -
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According to their website, "The CINAHL database includes citations from 2,593 journals of which are currently indexed. Some journals have ceased publication, changed names or are no longer indexed in the database. Of the 2,593 journals indexed, 1,798 include author abstracts. Journals cover nursing, allied health, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and health sciences librarianship."

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EBSCO Publishing's various databases
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According to their website "EBSCO offers an integrated content solution to enhance patient care, improve access to the best available evidence, inform patients, add value to electronic health records and more. With a complete suite of clinical, patient-oriented and administration databases, EBSCO offers the highest quality health solutions including point-of-care synthesized evidence, nursing resources, patient education materials, marketing tools, medical research databases, social work content, and the ability to garner CME and CEU..."

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EMBASE -
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According to their website, "Comprehensive, timely access to pharmacological, biomedical literature; More than 18 million records; 11 million+ EMBASE records from 1974-present and 7 million+ unique MEDLINE records from 1966-present; The most current version of EMBASE available with records online on average within 10 working days; Daily updates with more than 2,000 records added every working day; 600,000+ records added annually; 7,000+ journals from over 70 countries indexed; close to 2,000 more journals than covered by EMBASE or MEDLINE individually."


MEDLINE -
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According to their website, "MEDLINE is the United States National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database providing information from the following fields: medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health and pre-clinical sciences. The Ovid MEDLINE database contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and in 70 other countries."

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