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Programs and tools mentioned

  • CINAHL: a database of nursing and allied health journal articles.
  • Cochrane Collaboration: produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions.
  • Cochrane Library: a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, including Cochrane systematic reviews and protocols.
  • Covidence: an online tool to manage screening references and data extraction when conducting a systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review.
  • EBSCOhost: a platform that provides access to several different databases.
  • Emcare: a database that covers nursing and allied health.
  • Embase: a medical research database for high-quality, comprehensive evidence.
  • EndNote: a reference manager to gather and organise references.
  • Google Scholar: a free search engine that indexes scholarly literature.
  • Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI): an organisation promoting and supporting evidence-based decisions to improve health and health service delivery.
  • MEDLINE: a database of primarily journal articles on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences.
  • PsycInfo: a database of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports in psychology.
  • Preprint servers: online repositories where researchers can post early versions of papers online.
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: a database of dissertations and theses.
  • PubMed: a free database including primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics.
  • PubMedID: an identifier for records of publications used in PubMed.
  • Scopus: a multidisciplinary navigational tool that includes scientific, technical, medical, and social science literature.
  • Web of Science: includes multidisciplinary data, books, journals, proceedings & patents.
  • Zotero: a free reference manager to collect, organise, annotate, cite, and share research.

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