Nursing & Health Studies

Welcome to Richter Library's Resource Guide
for Nursing and Health Studies!

This guide is a great tool for finding information for research, collecting articles for classes, and broadening your knowledge of Nursing and Health Studies. Each tab contains current and relevent resources for assisting you in collecting the best information for your project, interest, or research. 

• Access Medicine
  medical reference, multimedia, practice guidelines, diagnostic tests, and self assessment.
• ClinicalKey Flex
  Reference books and journals, drug information, videos, practice guidelines, patient handouts, clinical calculators and more.
• DynaMed
  Evidence based literature and clinical practice guidelines at 'point-of-care' Mobile device access: DynaMed homepage under "How to use DynaMed".
• Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence Based Practice (EBP) Database
  Formulated by 40 countries, JBI provides evidence for nursing, allied health and medical professionals for clinical decision making. Check out the JBI Levels of Evidence.
• UpToDate
  Like DynaMed (above), is an EBP tool for quickly finding medical research that is appraised and synthesized into summaries for diagnosing and treating conditions.

• CINAHL Plus
  Primary index to the international literature of nursing and health.
• Cochrane Library
  Network of high-quality information for health decision making. Includes Cochrane's Systematic Reviews, Central Register of Controlled Trials, Clinical Answers.
• Healthcare Administration Database (Proquest Health Management )
  Resources for health administration, healthcare workers, hospitals, health law, statistics, policy, finance, management and more.
• Joanna Briggs EBP
  Evidence Based Practice in Nursing
• ProQuest Research Library
  Scholarly infom from 150 subject areas. It's surprising what you might find for health & nursing.
• PsycINFO
  Premier database for psychology, mental health, and behavior & health sciences. Produced by the American Psychological Association.
• PubMed - US National Library of Medicine, NIH
  NLM search engine of the Medline database and other biomedical and life science literature.
• Web of Science Citation Indexes
  A large multi-disciplinary database of journal articles & conference proceedings. Includes all the sciences plus social science and arts & humanities. Also provides journal and author impact data and citation linkage between papers.

• Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination
  Provides clinical skills videos of head-to-toe and systems-based physical exams.
• VisualDx
  A diagnostic clinical decision support system, combining clinical research with an image library. Includes expert help with diagnosis, treatment, self-education, and patient communication.

• Embase
  Embase is a biomedical and pharmacological full text database, that includes disease and medical device data.
• Micromedex
  Provides evidence based drug information and clinical answers and resources for patient and consumer education. Use Help menu for tips and tricks (upper left corner).
• NLM Drug Information Portal
  Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, this portal provides information on over 78 thousand drugs. For quick instructions, under the News and Features tab, select About.
• Toxnet
  A group of databases covering chemicals and drugs, diseases and the environment, occupational safety, poisoning, risk assessment and regulations, and toxicology.

BioMed Central
BMC is an independent open access publisher that provides 300 peer review journals about biology, medicine, simulation medicine, technology, genome science, and public health. 

EthicShare
EthicShare is for scholars in the field of ethics. Features everything from scholarly articles to blogs.

MedlinePlus
Produced by the National Library of Medicine for patients, providing reliable, up-to-date health information information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in non-technical language. Freely available.

Nurses-Medscape
Free from WebMD targeted at nurses. POC information for drugs, diseases, procedures. Medscape Mobile available for iPhone/Pad, BlackBerry, Android. See Medscape homepage for instructions

NAVIGATING DATABASES
Browse through our A-Z Database List

Look at Richter Library's research tutorial How-To-Videos

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PUBMED TUTORIALS & VIDEOS

• PubMed Help Book
• PubMed Tutorials
• Yale MeSH Analyzer
• Tutorial for Yale MeSH Analyzer

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MOBILE APPS
For a more comprehensive list of available apps go to Calder Library's Medical Mobile Apps Guide

COVID RESOURCES

• Covid-19 Resource Guide [Calder Library]
• LitCovid (PubMed articles on Covid-19)

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RESOURCES ON HEALTH DISPARITIES

• Health Disparities in the U.S. [University of Michigan Guide]
• MedlinePlus Health Disaparities
• U.S. Department of Health's Office of Minority Health
• EthnoMed

EBOOK COLLECTIONS

• Nursing eBooks [Calder Library List]
• Access Medicine Books
• ClinicalKey eBooks
• eBook Central (ProQuest)
• eBook Collection (EBSCOHost)
• Journals A Ovid LWW Total Access Collection
• R2 Digital Library

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USEARCH GUIDES

• How to Use uSearch / Catalogue
• How to Request Books on uSearch

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NURSING JOURNALS

• Nursing e-Journals

1) Go to the 2nd floor of Richter Library

2) If you're coming from the elevators go to your right. If you're coming from the stairs go straight toward the elevators across and take a left.

3) Look for the sign that says "Stacks Elevators" down the hall.

• Access Medicine
  medical reference, multimedia, practice guidelines, diagnostic tests, and self assessment.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
  Available images from the CDC -- most images in public domain.
• Harden Image Library
  Freely available; all images in public domain.
• MD Consult
  MD Consult is an professional medical information site for academic research and clinical practice. The center is a venture of leading medical publishers including Mosby, W.B. Saunders Company, and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. The service includes full-text access to 48 leading medical journals, 35 reference works, over 600 clinical practice guidelines, customizable patient education handouts, and drug information for more than 30,000 medications
• Parasite Image Library
  From the CDC
• ScienceDirect
  Science Direct is a full text database offering journals and books from the leading scholarly publisher Elsevier. It has particular strengths in medicine and mathmatics, but its nine million articles cover a wide range of scientific topics. The collection stretches back to 1823 and includes prominent publications including The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron. ScienceDirect hosts over 2,500 journals and more than 33,000 books—over 13 million peer-reviewed publications (including Open Access journals) in science, technical information, and health. Note Nursing journals in Column 3 Health Sciences.

DATABASES

• Cochrane Library
• Joanna Briggs  EBP
• PubMed 
• CINAHL 
• Embase
• Web of Science
• TRIP

POINT OF CARE TOOLS

• DynaMed
• Up to Date.

• Duke University | Introduction to Evidence Based Practice
  Duke University Medical Center Library & the Health Sciences Library UNC-Chapel Hill. Use as a tutorial or an introductory reading of the principles of EBP.
• Mercer University School of Medicine | EBM Point of Care Resources (PDF)
  The PDF provides content summary, features of various, when to use EBM resources.
• Georgetown University | Searching Medline (PubMed) by Question & Study Type
  GU's Dahlgren Memorial Library offers this excellent guide for using limiters to search the Medline database (which makes up 90% of PubMed) by type of clinical question and study design. Worth a look.
• "Useful Links"
  Websites, organizations and resources, relating to evidence-based healthcare, statistics and research.

CINAHL
1) On top bar, click on Evidence Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons type in the topic, condition, or procedure.
2) In Advanced Search, type the topic, then select Publication Type and select Practice Guidelines in the limiter section,

Clinical Key
Click on Guidelines menu next to the search box at the top. Search by organization name, specialty, or topic.

PubMed
1) Click on Additional Filters 
2) Select Practice Guidelines and it will appear under Article Type.
3) Run search and click on the Practice Guideline filter

DynaMed or UpToDate
1) Type in condition, procedure, or etc. in the search box
2) Select one of the results
3) On the left handside under Topic Outline you will find Guidelines
 

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 
  • AHRQ Nursing Guidelines
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) 
• American College of Physicians (AMP)
• Center for Disease Control
  • CDC Guidelines
  • Center for Disease Control (CDC) Infection Control Guidelines
• Cincinnati Children's J. M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence
• CMA - Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts (HSTAT)
• Hospital Improvement Innovation Network
• National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guidelines (NCCN)
• National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
• US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
• Veterans Affairs (VA) Clinical Practice Guidelines

What is the difference between a Systematic Review and Scoping Review and which one should I do?

Systematic vs. Scoping vs. Integrative Review  Duquesne University

Munn Z, P., etal. (2018) Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach. BMC Med Res Methodol. 19;18(1):143.    doi: 10.1186/s12874-018-0611-x. 

Typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies (Grant & Booth, 2009)
 

Building a good research question is at the heart of conducing a viable Systematic or Scoping Review. Best guidance on how to do this and what is required is at  University of Texas

CEE – Section 3.1 Scoping and Parts of 3.2 Developing & Testing the search strategy, e.g., parts of 3.2.1  

Part 2 Chapter 4 Searching for and selecting studies  Cochrane Handbook for SR’s of Interventions

Some things to keep in mind when formulating your search (Tufts Uni.):

Does the database use a controlled vocabulary or just keywords? If so use both.

Make a list or table of terms to express your concepts and the synonyms for each.

Combining Concepts and Terms
- ‘AND’ different concepts
- ‘OR’ synonyms for a concept.

When using keywords think about using truncation (*); plurals; abbreviations; and alternate spellings 

Translating a Search into Multiple Health Science Databases (U of Dalh.)

Health Sciences Search Terms & Filters (U of AB)
 

• Overview of Primary Excel Workbook for SR
• Saving Search Strategies and Results in Primary Excel Workbook for SR PIECES Workbook
• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews 
• Equator network – check out other tabs on this website, e.g. Toolkits > Selecting reporting guideline
• PRISMA Flow Diagram (Flow Diagram is 2^nd part of the PRISMA statement
• Excel Search Results Chart  (Tufts University Sys. Review page - Downloads box)

PROTOCOLS AND REGISTRIES
Any researcher can register a protocol. If a publication or agency does not require one, submitting one is optional, but writing one as part of the process is fundamental. It helps plan and specify how you will navigate the systematic review process and stay on course.
 
Systematic Reviews Protocols and Protocol Registries – National Institutes of Health (NIH) 
To the left of the page are links to tips - Document Your Work and Literature Search: Databases & Gray Literature
Protocol Worksheet – University of Iowa Libraries (Registration not necessary)
PRISMA P (Protocol)
 

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HAS MY REVIEW ALREADY BEEN DONE?
It's important to know this and to avoid duplication. In addition to checking protocol databases, search UM Libraries Databases Medline (in PubMed or OVID), CINAHL, PsycINFO, etc. – use limiters or filters to target only Systematic Reviews or by adding the term Systematic Review to your search. 
 
Prospero is an international protocol database for systematic reviews in a variety of disciplines with “health related outcomes”.  Through registration of review is helps avoid “duplication and enable comparison of reported review methods with what was planned in the protocol”.
Cochrane Library databases for high quality, independent evidence for healthcare decision-making.
Campbell Collaboration provides S.R.s in the social sciences.
DARE - from York University, UK| National Institute of Health Research (NHS)
Trip is a search engine lists publications of varying levels of evidence based research.
 

SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
 Systematic Reviews, Scoping Reviews, and other Knowledge Synthesis Guide & Processes (McGill University)
 Joanna Briggs Institute Reviewer’s Manual
      U of Adelaide (Describes steps for SRs of qualitative, quantitative, economic, text and
       opinion based evidence.) Check the Appendices in each chapter for worksheets and guides.)
PRISMA Statement (Transparent Reporting of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis) About page
PRISMA 2020 Checklist (The Checklist is 1 of 2 parts of “PRISMA Statement”. Click on the Checklist)

Cochrane Interactive Learning Modules UM Calder Library
Systematic Reviews: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) guidance for undertaking systematic reviews in health care  U of York, UK  (See Appendix 3: Documenting the search process)
Systematic Reviews: Skills to Develop Literature Searches, Manage Results and Evaluate Findings    U of Pittsburgh | Health Sc Library System
Systematic Reviews: SR Process U of Washington | Health Science Library
Systematic Review Guide U of Texas

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SCOPING REVIEWS
Scoping Reviews: what they are & how to them PDF
Scoping Reviews: what they are and how to do them  Cochrane Training Videos
Scoping Reviews: what they are and how to do them  Cochrane Training Slides
PRISMA-ScR – extension for Scoping Reviews Checklist
PRISMA for Scoping Reviews tip sheets and video
Joanna Briggs Institution Scoping Reviews  Chapter 11
Current Best Practices for the Conduct of Scoping Reviews U of Toronto (super simple)
Scoping Review Guide U of Texas Library

Tools for appraising articles in any review
Appraisal & Analysis Duke University Medical Center Library
The Center for Evidence-Based Medicine
JBI Critical Appraisal Tools
Oxford Center for Evidence-based Medicine

UM subscribes to Covidence found in the UM Libraries homepage
Video to get you started with Covidence
Covidence Help Guide
Covidence You Tube Channel
Covidence Knowledge Base  FAQ articles and Covidence news & updates.