Evidence-based Practice
Library and Web Resources
Clinical Work Stations
 Up to date
 Zynx
Clinical Informatics Consult Service (Eskind Biomedical Library service)
 Librarians support clinical teams in developing evidence-based protocols,
pathways, and order sets
 Contact person: Rebecca Jerome, 936-1364
 Search doc is an on-line link that provides tips about where to look for relevant
evidence
Eskind Digital Library
 EBM database
 Cochrane Review
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
 Link to evidence-based practice centers: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic.epc
 Link to list of evidence-based reports: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcindex
 Link to the National Guideline Clearinghouse http://www.guideline.gov/
Research-based nursing journals
Evidence Based Nursing
NT Research
Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis
Biological Research for Nursing
Clinical Nursing Research
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research
Nurse Researcher
Journal of Nursing Measurement
Applied Nursing Research
Western Journal of Nursing Research
Research in Nursing and Health
Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice
Nursing Science Quarterly
Advances in Nursing Science
Journal of Nursing Scholarship
Oncology Nursing Forum
Annual Review of Nursing Research
Nursing Research
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Evidence-based Nursing Internet Resources
1. The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) is a professional review organization creating
systematic reviews of evidence based nursing. JBI Connect allows you to select
a practice problem and build a reference list and synthesis table.
http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/about/home.php
2. Evidence-based Clinical Practice Working Group, Department of Clinical
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of McMaster, Canada.
http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/ceb/acts/ebcp.htm
3. Books related to EBN:
http://www.astuk.com/products-by-keywords/evidence-based-nursing.html
4. University of Hertfordshire, UK, has an informative web page to
explain evidence-based medicine.
http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/subjects/health/ebm.htm
5. A wonderful EBM website from University of Toronto, Canada, aims to develop,
disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practise and teach EBM
for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care
professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines.
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/medicine/ebm/
6. This is a Nursing Resource Collection from University of Massachusetts –
Amherst
http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/business/ebn.html
7. The unit for Evidence Based Nursing at Malmö University the Department of
Nursing and Public Health, School of Health and Society, recently formed a unit
for Evidence Based Nursing.
http://www.hs.mah.se/Research/Evidenseng.htm
8. Developing Evidence Based Nursing Practice, Health Care Practice Research
and Development Unit (HCPRDU) University of Salford, UK.
http://www.salford.ac.uk/ihr/hcprdu/complete/ebnp.htm
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9. NHS research and development: center for evidence based medicine. The
Center was established in Oxford University, UK. Its broad aim is to promote
evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who
wants to make use of them.
http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/
10. The Western Australian Centre for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery,
School of Nursing, Curtin University of Technology, AU.
http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/planstats/wacebnm/
11. Evidence Based Health Care, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO.
http://www.slu.edu/libraries/hsc/wr_ebhc.shtml
12. Evidence-based Practice websites for nurse researchers, by Mary E. Duffy, the
Director of the Center for Nursing Research at Boston College, School of Nursing
http://www.nursing.uc.edu/nrm/duffy11799.htm
13. Techniques for Locating Evidence-Based Practice Resources, University of
Washington Health Sciences Libraries
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/ebp/
14. Evidence-based Medicine resource and information, Duke University medical
center library.
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/respub/guides/ebm/index.html
15. Nursing Informatics and Evidence-Based Nursing, University of Wisconsin Health
Science libraries
http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/chslib/ad/docs/nurfmatc.htm
Source: Evidence Based nursing http://evidence.ahc.umn.edu/ebn.htm#top#top
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Evaluating Quality of the Research
Content
Description
Study Design
Random, blind, or repeated measures
Population
Brief description of larger population
Sample
Sample characteristics, randomization
Inclusions/Exclusion Criteria
Criteria described
Time Frame of study
Length of total study
Time Frame of treatment
Length of intervention
Intervention
Intervention description
Data collection
Dependent variables, independent
variables
Analysis
Technique used
Results
Results reported in terms of research
questions (hypotheses)
Conclusions
Conclusions of study
Limitations
Subjects lost to follow-up
Blinding
Did person giving intervention know
whether the subjects were in the
experimental or control groups
Source: Evidence Based nursing http://evidence.ahc.umn.edu/ebn.htm#top#top
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