Overview

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Overview

• 1,750 journals indexed
• 55 of journal titles are unique to CINAHL
• 18 languages
• 337 titles added in 2003/2004
• 60 journal titles in full text

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Unique Fields

• Website
• Legal Cases
• Research Instrument
• Research Term Definition
• Clinical Innovations
• Accreditation

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Subsets

• Peer Reviewed
• Subject Matter Expert
• Editorial Board
• Blind
• Double Blind

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Specific Interest Categories

• New categories added in 2004
• Mens Health
• Consumer Health
• Patient Safety
• Womens Health

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Searching for Evidence

• Primary sources
• Nearly 200,000 research articles use document
  type Research to limit search

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Searching for Evidence, (continued)

• Secondary sources summaries of evidence
• Systematic reviews
• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Monographs
  Series
• Online Journal of Clinical Innovations

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Searching for Evidence, (continued)

• Secondary sources interpretation/clinical
  application pieces
• Linking of commentary, response, and original
  source
• Document types Care Plan, Protocol, etc.

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PreCINAHL Database

• Bibliographic
• Selection of included journals
• Keyword searching
• Updated weekly

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Reference Browsing

• Cited references included for over 800 journals

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