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• PubMed- see Health Services Research Filter
• CINAHL

• Business Source Complete- includes health care industry reports
• ABI/INFORM Global
   

• National Information Center on Health Services Research & Health Care Technology- Databases & Retrieval Services
• Pilot Health Services Research (HSR) Filters Project
• HSRProj (Health Services Research Projects in Progress)
• HSRR (Health Services and Sciences Research Resources)
• Google (advanced search- can limit to .edu, .gov, .org, .com)
• Google Scholar
• Nursinglibrary.org- Nursing research project
• TRIP (Turning Research into Practice)
• Grey Literature- UNM's Grey Literature and How to Find It
• SourceOECD Health Data

PubMed

Evidence based practice

• evidence based medicine or "evidence based practice" or “evidence based nursing”

• This searches: ("evidence-based medicine"[MeSH Terms] OR evidence based medicine[Text Word]) OR "evidence based practice"[All Fields] OR "evidence based nursing"[All Fields]

Economics

• costs or cost or economic or economics

• This searches: ("costs and cost analysis"[MeSH Terms] OR costs[Text Word]) OR ("economics"[Subheading] OR "costs and cost analysis"[MeSH Terms] OR cost[Text Word]) OR (("economics"[TIAB] NOT Medline[SB]) OR "economics"[MeSH Terms] OR economic[Text Word]) OR ("economics"[Subheading] OR "economics"[MeSH Terms] OR economics[Text Word])

Decision making

• decision making or decision trees

• This searches: ("decision making"[MeSH Terms] OR decision making[Text Word]) OR ("decision trees"[MeSH Terms] OR decision trees[Text Word])

Quality of Life

• quality-adjusted life years or quality of life

• This searches: ("quality-adjusted life years"[MeSH Terms] OR quality-adjusted life years[Text Word]) OR ("quality of life"[MeSH Terms] OR quality of life[Text Word])

Nursing

• nurse or nursing (will include breastfeeding terms)

• This searches: (("nurses"[TIAB] NOT Medline[SB]) OR "nurses"[MeSH Terms] OR nurse[Text Word]) OR ("nursing"[Subheading] OR "nursing"[MeSH Terms] OR nursing[Text Word])

Other terms

• Add terms applicable to project/question/nursing

Tip

• Use [MaJR] instead of [Mesh] to focus the search

CINAHL

Evidence based practice

• (evidence based practice) or (MH "Professional Practice, Evidence-Based+")

• This searches (evidence based practice) or (MH "Occupational Therapy Practice, Evidence-Based") or (MH "Physical Therapy Practice, Evidence-Based") or (MH "Medical Practice, Evidence-Based") or (MH "Nursing Practice, Evidence-Based+") or (MH "Professional Practice, Research-Based+")

• OR can just search (evidence based practice) or (MH "Nursing Practice, Evidence-Based") or whichever suits question.

Economics

• (economics) or (economic) or (MH "Economics") or (MH "Costs and Cost Analysis+") or (MH "Nursing Costs") or (cost) or (costs)

• MH “Economics” can be exploded- check to see if applicable.

Decision making

• (decision tree) or (MH "Decision Trees") or (decision making) or (MH "Decision Making")

Nursing

• (nursing) or (MH "Nursing Care+") or (MH "Nurses+") or ( nurses or nurse )

Other terms

• Add terms applicable to project/question/nursing

Tip

• Use (MM “term”) instead of (MH “term”) to focus the search

Business Source Complete

Rely on keywords and then the suggested Subject Terms

• Economics

• Medical economics

• Medical care, cost of

• Hospital utilization

• Hospital care

• Quality control

• Cost or costs

ABI/INFORM Global

Rely on keywords and then the suggested Subjects

• Health care

• Quality of service

• Cost control

• Nurses

• Economics

• Cost or costs

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