Research Guides: Nutrition, Food Science, and Dietetics Guide: Evidence-Based Resources

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Lisa Connor

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lconnor@shsu.edu

Evidence-Based Resources

Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window The gold-standard in Evidence-Based Practice documentation for Nursing, Health and all healthcare related disciplines. Providing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, including: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials; Cochrane Methodology Register; Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE); Health Technology Assessment Database; and NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
CINAHL Complete (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) This link opens in a new window Nursing and allied health journals and other publications of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing.

Trip Database
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.

Trip has been online since 1997 and in that time has developed into the internet’s premier source of evidence-based content. Our motto is ‘Find evidence fast’ and this is something we aim to deliver for every single search.

Evidence Based Practice Centers - AHRQ

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created the Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) in 1997 to conduct evidence reports for the Effective Health Care (EHC) Program. In December 2019, the latest 5-year contracts were awarded to 9 EPCs.

The EPCs are housed at universities, medical centers, and research institutions in the United States. The EPCs produce evidence reports on medications, devices, and other health care services for the EHC Program with the goal of helping consumers, health care professionals, and policymakers make informed and evidence-based health care decisions.

Each EPC is made up of medical researchers from a broad range of clinical health and scientific backgrounds. The people who conduct research at the EPCs are medical doctors, pharmacy doctors, psychologists, physical therapists, and other medical specialists. In addition, they are also trained in different types of health research such as epidemiology, health services research, and organizational change research.

AHRQ's Evidence-based Practice Centers

Brown University, Center for Evidence-based Medicine Providence, RI – Thomas Trikalinos, M.D., and Ethan M. Balk, M.D., M.Sc.
ECRI – Penn Medicine Evidence-based Practice Center Plymouth Meeting, PA – Amy Y. Tsou, M.D., and Jonathan R. Treadwell, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD – Eric B. Bass, M.D., M.P.H., and Karen A. Robinson, Ph.D.
Kaiser Permanente Evidence-based Practice Center Portland, OR – Jennifer S. Lin, M.D., M.C.R., FACP, and Elizabeth A. O'Connor, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic Evidence-based Practice Center Rochester, MN – M. Hassan Murad, M.D., M.P.H.
Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center Minneapolis, MN – Mary E. Butler, Ph.D., MBA, and Timothy J. Wilt, M.D., M.P.H.
Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR – Roger Chou, M.D.
RTI-UNC Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Chapel Hill, NC – Meera Viswanathan, Ph.D.
Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center Los Angeles, CA – Susanne Hempel, Ph.D.

Evidence-based Tutorial

This excellent tutorial on Evidence-Based Practice is created by the University of Minnesota Libraries 2007.

Evidence-Based Practice