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Health Administration and Interprofessional Leadership (HAIL): Evidence-Based Practice

A guide for those enrolled in the online Healthcare Administration and Interprofessional Leadership program.

Learn More about EBP

Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare: a guide to best practice [electronic resource]
Lippincott manual of nursing practice [electronic resource]
Patient safety and quality: an evidence-based handbook for nurses
American Journal of Nursing series: EBP step by step
JBI EBP eBook
A series of EBP eBooks: Synthesizing evidence from narrative, test and opinion; Synthesizing evidence of diagnostic accuracy; synthesizing evidence of risk; synthesizing qualitative evidence; Synthesizing quantitative evidence; Translation science and the JBI model of evidence-based healthcare

Resources for Evidence-Based Information

PubMed@UCSF Clinical Queries
A quick way to locate systematic reviews, meta-analyses, reviews of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, consensus development conferences, and guidelines.
PubMed Health
Find clinical effectiveness reviews to learn what treatments and prevention methods have been proven to work—and what remains unknown.

Cochrane Library
Find systematic reviews.
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- Economic evaluations of health care interventions from published and unpublished sources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)

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CINAHL Complete
Use Limits: Clinical Queries or Evidence-Based Practice or Publication Type: Meta-Analysis or Systematic Review. Also, use "Evidence-Based Care Sheets" for quick access.
Helps you find:
- nursing and allied health literature from 1937 to the present
- full-text articles
- full-text books
- standards of professional practice
- dissertations

Also contains:
- evidence-based care information
- educational software & continuing education modules
- audiovisual materials
- research instruments
- consumer health information

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TRIP (Translating Research Into Practice) Database (FREE)
Allows health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice.

Practice Guidelines

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence Reports
High quality evidence-based reports.

Guidelines and Measures
Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
Helps you:
- Find objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines
- Develop, implement, and use clinical practice guidelines

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U.S. Preventative Services Task Force
Evaluate clinical research in order to assess the merits of preventive measures, including screening tests, counseling, immunizations, and preventive medications.
Nursing Best Practice Guidelines (Ontario, Canada)
A free database of practice guidelines developed by the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (Canada).