LibGuides: CINAHL Complete: Above and Beyond

Beyond the Surface

The Evidence-based practice limiter is applied to articles from evidence based practice journals, as well as articles about evidence based practice, research articles (including systematic reviews, clinical trials, meta analyses, qualitative studies), commentaries on research studies (applying practice to research), case studies if they meet the criteria of the use of research and/or evidence based practice terms.

What is included in the CINAHL Evidence-Based Practice limiter?

Step-by-step guide to critiquing research. Part 1: quantitative research.
This article is a step-by step-approach to critiquing quantitative research to help nurses demystify the process and decode the terminology.
Step-by-step guide to critiquing research. Part 2: Qualitative research.
Qualitative research it is often regarded as more difficult to critique. Nevertheless, an evidenced-based profession such as nursing cannot accept research at face value, and nurses need to be able to determine the strengths and limitations of qualitative as well as quantitative research studies when reviewing the available literature on a topic.

From EBSCO's press release:

Clinical Queries, designed for clinician use, allow users to limit searches with specific search strategies, to aid in retrieving scientifically sound and clinically relevant study reports indexed in CINAHL databases. Searches can be refined using specific search strategies designed to produce results in five research areas:

Therapy - High Sensitivity
Prognosis
Review
Qualitative
Causation (Etiology)

As research may require different emphasis, three strategies are provided for each area.

High Sensitivity is the broadest search, to include ALL relevant material. It may also include less relevant materials.
High Specificity is the most targeted search to include only the most relevant result set, may miss some relevant materials.
Best Balance retrieves the best balance between Sensitivity and Specificity.