Research Utilization and Evidence-Based Practice | limit your search

To address the methodology component, one can restrict the search by publication type. For example, by limiting Therapeutic touch to the publication type "research" OR "systematic review" you will retrieve fewer articles: those that have been designated as either research or systematic review.

Here is an example of a simple search in CINAHL limited by publication type.

More sensitive strategies have been developed to filter evidence in CINAHL and MEDLINE. See the links below.

Links

Search strategies to Identify Reviews and Meta-analyses in MEDLINE and CINAHL: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/search.htm

Evidence-based Filters for OVID CINAHL
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/Miner/Educ/ebnfilt.htm

PubMed Clinical Queries Using Research Methodology Filters: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query/static/clinical.html

For further reading: "A magnet in a haystack: filtering the literature for research studies" [Cinahl and Medline via Ovid, PsycINFO, via SilverPlatter]

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