Evidence-Based Practice Resources

This guide provides an overview of evidence-based practice (EBP) resources that are relevant to students, educators, and clinicians in the health sciences professions (e.g., medicine and nursing).

Resources include:

• clinical point-of-care tools
• evidence syntheses (e.g., clinical practice guidelines and systematic reviews) 
• primary studies, including specialized biomedical databases that enable you to search by study or publication type
• background information (e.g., review articles, core textbooks)
• tools for teaching and learning about the EBP process

Evidence-based health care is "the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. Evidence-based clinical practice requires integration of individual clinical expertise and patient preferences with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research and consideration of available resources." 

Source: JAMAevidence Glossary

The following list is a small sample of the resources included in this guide. Freely available tools are indicated with an open lock symbol. To access licensed resources while off-campus or using the campus guest wifi network, see Access VPN.