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Nursing: Cochrane Search Tips

A guide to finding and managing nursing information for teaching, research and evidence-based nursing practice.

Cochrane Search Tips

Cochrane Library
Evidence-based medicine.
Helps you:
- Explore evidence for and against effectiveness and appropriateness of treatments in specific circumstances.
- See economic evaluations
- Find methodologies

Access to databases for the practice of evidence-based medicine:
- Systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials that have been published in the current literature
- Summaries of systematic reviews
- Reports from health technology assessment organizations
- Economic evaluations of health care interventions from published and unpublished sources
- Methods used in the conduct of controlled trials

Resources include:
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
- Health Technology Assessment Database(HTA)
- NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED)
- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
- Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR)

keywords: EBM evidence based medicine

Cochrane Systematic Reviews are highly trustworthy evidence-based reviews. They are included in PubMed.

Cochrane Search TIPS:

Search topic: coping strategies among parents of children with chronic illness

parents AND children AND ("chronic diseases" OR "chronic illness") AND ("coping strategies" OR "coping behavior")

Star with TITLE, ABSTRACT, KEYWORD search.
If you retrieve too many studies, try to use the "RECORD TITLE" search.
If you need more studies, try to use "ALL TEXT" search to broaden your search results.
Click "Advanced Search."