Q. What are Evidence Based Articles?

Though many articles may be evidence based, for research purposes evidence based generally refers to articles in the medical, nursing, psychiatry and related health sciences fields.

• Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the conscientious use of current best evidence in making decisions about patient care (Sackett, Straus, Richardson, Rosenberg, & Haynes, 2000).
• Evidence based might be described as evidence based practice, evidence based healthcare or evidence based medicine.
• Like other advanced research, the best way to find the required articles is using databases that provide a specific way to limit to those kinds of resources.
• In the CINAHL database you can apply an evidence based limit to your search.
• There are more databases with evidence based articles, but you have to take a different approach since they don't have a limit to apply. Here's how:
  • Search with your topic but add the term AND "evidence based" with quotes.
    Example search: "mental health" AND "evidence based"
  • On the result list you will then have to select evidence based as a subject. What is under varies by database.

You can see more details on Tips for Finding Evidence Based Articles.