Tips, Tools and Tutorials from the D'Youville Library
One of the best databases for finding quantitative medical research articles is CINAHL. It contains articles of the highest quality with unmatched search options and a large collection of full text medical journals. It is also the most popular database in the D’Youville Library collection.
Continue reading “Three search strategies for quickly locating quantitative research in CINAHL”
Exploring examples of how others do research is part of the literature review process. One of the key features that students are often looking for are examples of the measurement tools used in the published medical literature.
Trying to search these sources by research instrument is not easy in most databases. It is even harder if you don’t have a specific research instrument in mind and want to explore what options might be available. The CINAHL database can help you quickly identify and find articles by research instrument used with the CINAHL Subject Heading tool.
Continue reading “Finding Research Instrument Examples Made Easy”Here is a short infographic outlining six steps that go into the creation of a systematic review. This graphic is meant to illustrate the process to give you a better idea into what a systematic review is for those that are including them in their own research or for those that are producing a systematic review of their own.
Keep a look out for future posts with more information on how and where to find systematic reviews at the D’Youville Library.
In this infographic we compare three popular nursing databases from the D’Youville Library by running a keyword search for “patient centered care” and then compared the results.
These databases can be found on our A-Z Database page.
