Free Databases for Searches
PubMed Provides free access to MEDLINE and the National Library of Medicine database of indexed citations and original abstracts in medicine, nursing, and health care; search tutorials; evidence-based medical reviews (EBMR)
Turning Research into Practice (TRIP) Provides free access to MEDLINE and the National Library of Medicine dA free meta-search engine for evidence-based healthcare topics; searches hundreds of evidence based medicine and evidence based nursing websites that contain synopses, clinical answers, textbook information, clinical calculators, systematic reviews, and guidelines
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) is the leading resource for systematic reviews (SR) in the world. Can search for free and view abstracts and plain language summaries. Some SR can be downloaded for free, others require a fee.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
The funding of this site stopped July 16, 2018
A free database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents stills exists but it is not the most up to date. Suggest going to the practice organization website to access free guidelines e.g. American Heart Association
The funding of this site stopped July 16, 2018
A free database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents stills exists but it is not the most up to date. Suggest going to the practice organization website to access free guidelines e.g. American Heart Association
Article on how to do an Effective Search
Research Matrices
-a way to organize, document, and track your searches; and to extract key information from studies to build an evidence synthesis. Below are templates of several types of research matrices.