CINAHL provides indexing for more than 5,500 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.
Access via https://library.svhg.ie/ pink e-journals and databases box on left or via your OpenAthens login externally.
PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
These tutorials show how to create an NCBI account, define the difference between a Medical Subject Heading and a keyword, execute an effective search using both Medical Subject Headings and keywords, employ field tags, set up a search alert, and navigate basic and advanced searches.
TRIP is a medical search engine, available through SVUH, with an emphasis on evidence based medicine (EBM) and clinical guidelines. A short introduction to searching Trip.
A search filter is a pre-made search strategy. They are especially useful when searching for particular study designs (e.g. randomised controlled trial) or populations (eg.age of participants). Search filters can be found at the following sites.
• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
• ISSG Search Filter Resource
• McMaster Health Information Research Unit
• Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (SIGN)
• BIREME repository of search strategies
• Flinders Centre of Clinical Change and Health Care Research Collection
• BMJ Best Practice search filters
From: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/sureinfo/home/search-filters
Students4BestEvidence: A network for students interested in evidence-based healthcare
Sensitivity and specificity explained (Students for Best Evidence)
How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists