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Evidence Based Practice: Acquire

Resources, tips, and tools for evidence-based practice in health care

Acquire evidence via literature searching

Find and collect evidence to answer the question.

Construct search strategy from clinical question terms to acquire literature from research databases.

Pyramid of Evidence

Pyramid of Evidence. Dartmouth College and Yale University

Filtered Information

Systematic Reviews and

Meta-Analyses

 

Critically Appraised Topics

ACP Journal Club is now a monthly feature of Annals of Internal Medicine. ACP Journal Club summarizes the best new evidence for internal medicine from over 120 clinical journals.

 

Guidelines (Critically appraised topics)

Unfiltered Information

Studies or Articles

Background Information / Expert Opinion

Meta-Search Tools

Find It

Most research databases include a Find It icon in your search results to discover full text options:

Find It icon which links to full text from U Libraries licensed databases.

 

 

Clicking on the Find It icon will direct you to full-text article options. When off campus, you’ll be prompted to log in with your uNID.

Note: If no full-text from U Libraries, then  “Request an Article  via ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan services.  Log in with uNID.

More options for off-campus access to the University of Utah Network:
a) Library EZproxy  or  b) the VPN: Get the VPN 
Log in with uNID when prompted.

The tools listed below can also be used to find full text available on campus:

Set up Google Scholar to get full text through the University of Utah:

Set up PubMed to get full text through the University of Utah:

PICO tutorials for Search Strategy

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Need Full Text?

Look for this button to link to full text options:

Find It icon which links to full text from U Libraries licensed databases.