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Handout

Dietetics Searching Tips & Useful Web Resources Handout Handout provides some tips on how to do a good search as well as provides links to useful resources available at VCU.

Useful Documents

The Clinical Inquiry Process Diagram (2020) This is an update of the VCU Health Nursing Inquiry Process Diagram (version 2) that was created in 2018. This updated version provides more details in each step in the process. The intent is to make the process when it comes to either evidence-based practice, performance improvement or research questions more clear.
Clinical Inquiry Question Development Checklist (2023) The Clinical Inquiry Question Development Checklist is a handout used in instructional sessions with nurses about the clinical inquiry process. This process includes evidence-based practice, performance improvement, and research. The revised handout contains information related to the performance improvement process and various other aspects of the clinical inquiry process.
Doing a Good Search : Basic Rules and Search Tips (2023) This handout is an update of a previous handout and should be used as a reference for those learning how to search databases effectively. The handout covers the basic rules of doing a good search in order to search more efficiently and effectively. The revised handout includes information related to Boolean operators, types of questions, and a list of potential databases to be searched for various clinical questions.
Things to Consider When it Comes to Publishing Handout that discusses what to consider when it comes to publishing.
Finding Clinical Practice Guidelines Guidelines (2018) Handout that explains the various places one can go to find guidelines now that the National Guidelines Clearinghouse has been shutdown.
Zotero Tip Sheet
Tips for Writing an Abstract
Abstract Writing Checklist
Poster Development Tips
Search Documentation Sheet for Reviews (2021) - Make a Copy or Download to Use Spreadsheet to track terms, databases and search strategies used for systematic reviews or other in-depth reviews.
Scholars Compass Submission Information Sheet Be sure to download and submit with poster or other work product.

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Databases

PubMed/MEDLINE The primary database of information in biomedical and health sciences fields.
CINAHL Coverage: (1937 - present) Expanded version of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature with full text for over 600 journals, plus evidence-based care sheets, legal cases, drug records, and more than 200 books.
Embase Biomedicine and pharmacology citation database (1974 - present) with an international scope. Recommended for use in systematic reviews, and for finding drug and medical device information
Web of Science Multidisciplinary database that is a good place to search for basic science journal articles. Includes citations for conference proceedings as well.
GLOBAL HEALTH on CAB Direct Special public health database with literature on a global scale from both the developed and developing world.
Cochrane Library Database of systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare. Includes Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, Controlled Trials Register, and Review Methodology.
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) Options for accessing the National Agricultural Library's comprehensive source of bibliographic citations covering all aspects of agricultural sciences, botany, ecology and related areas.
PsycINFO APA database of Psychology and Psychiatry literature
TRIP (Turning Research into Practice) Database The TRIP Database performs a simple search in more than 60 databases related to evidence-based resources, allowing rapid identification of the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice. You can easily restrict your search to a given level of evidence in the hierarchy.
ECRI Guidelines Trust™ This resource provides access to clinical practice guideline briefs and scorecards that provide ratings as to how the guidelines meet the Institute of Medicine (IOM) standards for trustworthiness. The ECRI is the organization that assisted the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) in maintaining the National Guidelines Clearinghouse before it was shut down.
Google Scholar Scholarly literature crawled by Google.