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Background Information: Begin Your Search Here

Textbooks or "point of care" summaries are good sources for background information.

Nursing Reference Center
Looking for a brief overview or summary? Check out the Nursing Reference Center for Evidence-based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons. These are also available in CINAHL.

UpToDate
UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored resource than can be used to make point-of-care decisions. UpToDate documents provide evidence-based recommendations based on the latest, best evidence from journal literature and trusted professional organizations.

eBook Collection from the Bryan Library
A collection of e-books that includes a variety of topics related to nursing and health care.

Search for scholarly articles in the following databases:

Cochrane Collection
PubMed with Bryan Library Holdings

PubMed is provided by the National Library of Medicine covering the fields of Nursing, Anesthesia, Medicine and Health Professions. Click on the "Get it @ Bryan" button for access to full text (if available) or the article request form.

Practice guidelines and clinical guidelines are available from a wide variety of professional organizations.

AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AHRQ supports health services research that will improve the quality of health care and promote evidence-based decisionmaking
ECRI Institute: Guidelines Trust
Google Guideline Search
This link will open a Google search for guideline-related words. At the end of the search string, you will need to add your own disease/procedure/etc. terms and then closely evaluate the quality and credibility of the results.
Effective Health Care Program
"The Effective Health Care (EHC) Program improves the quality of health care by providing the best available evidence on the outcomes, benefits and harms, and appropriateness of drugs, devices, and health care services and by helping health care professionals, patients, policymakers, and health care systems make informed health care decisions. The EHC Program achieves this goal by partnering with research centers, academic institutions, health professional societies, consumer organizations, and other stakeholders to conduct research, evidence synthesis, evidence translation, dissemination, and implementation of research findings."

Searching for additional organizations? An extensive list is available from MedlinePlus: https://medlineplus.gov/organizations/orgbytopic_a.html