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Research Resources

Searching for Articles on Your Clinical Question or Situation

Select the key concepts from your clinical question or situation to conduct initial searches.

Follow the Articles/ Databases list under the Nursing tab (above) to identify appropriate databases to search for your articles.

Having difficulty conducting searches that reveal relevant sources? It is all about the terms and how you structure the search. 

Look at your question again.  Focus your search on the patient's issues or symptoms and condition.

Look for a way to identify terms used to describe your topic from within the tool you are using, i.e. Subjects, Descriptors. Medical Subjects are typically identified by the acronym MeSH.

Use the Medical Subject Headings tool (link below) to identify standard medical terms used to describe your topic.

Credible Sources: Scholarly/Popular/Peer Reviewed

Credible articles should have certain characteristics...

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