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., public health, nursing, medicine, and allied health).

Contents 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

Tips for using this guide:

• To access licensed databases and tools while off-campus or using the campus guest wifi network, see Accessing Library Materials at UC Davis Health.
• Freely available tools are indicated with an open lock symbol
• For additional information and tutorials, click on more...

Here is a small sample of the EBP databases and tools included in this guide:

The Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Resources Guide was created by a team of health sciences librarians at UC Davis Library with broad experience providing EBP instruction and evidence retrieval to learners and clinicians for evidence-based practice in nursing, medicine, public health, and allied health:

• Sadie Davenport
• Megan Van Noord
• Amy Studer

Please reach out if you have feedback about this guide, including suggestions for improvement.