Clinical guidelines and clinical evidence databases
Finding clinical evidence
The resources below may assist you in your search for clinical evidence.
Journal articles
Evidence based research is most commonly published in journal articles. Use the journal article databases on the Journals and journal articles page to find research articles for clinical questions. Medline, Pubmed, Embase and CINAHL are good places to start looking for research articles.
Clinical evidence databases
- PEDro : Physiotherapy Evidence DatabaseA database of evidence relevant to physiotherapy. PEDro contains citations of thousands of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines relevant to physiotherapy.
- JBI EBP database (Ovid)Find summarised and appraised evidence to inform health practice, including evidence summaries, best practice information sheets, systematic reviews and more.
- ClinicalKey (Elsevier)Evidence based clinical summaries and guidelines, patient education resources, journal articles, ebooks, videos and drug information for all healthcare and medical disciplines.
- Cochrane LibraryProvides in-depth research summaries (systematic reviews), and research journal articles with a focus on evidence-based medicine and healthcare.
- PubMed Clinical QueriesA specialized search within PubMed that focusses on evidence based clinical studies, systematic reviews, and medical genetics. Note: Griffith University users may not have access to the full-text as user registration, a subscription fee, or some other type of fee may be required to access the full-text of articles in some journals.
- OTseekerOTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy.
- CINAHL Complete (EBSCOhost)
A comprehensive database of journal articles and other publications for nursing and allied health. Coverage includes nursing specialties, speech pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more.
Clinical guidelines
Clinical guidelines provide evidence based information to support decision-making for patient care. Clinical guidelines can often be found in journal articles or clinical evidence databases, as well as in collections from national or state based groups.
- MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)Find the details of journal articles and other publications across the biomedical and life sciences. MEDLINE is a subset of PubMed.
- EmbaseHealth and biomedical journal articles and research in all health-related disciplines.
- CINAHL Complete (EBSCOhost)
A comprehensive database of journal articles and other publications for nursing and allied health. Coverage includes nursing specialties, speech pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more.
- ClinicalKey (Elsevier)Evidence based clinical summaries and guidelines, patient education resources, journal articles, ebooks, videos and drug information for all healthcare and medical disciplines.
- JBI EBP database (Ovid)Find summarised and appraised evidence to inform health practice, including evidence summaries, best practice information sheets, systematic reviews and more.
- Therapeutic GuidelinesFind clinical guidelines and therapeutic recommendations for a wide range of medical disorders.
Australian guidelines
- NHMRC Clinical GuidelinesContains a range of information on clinical practice Guidelines for the community, and specialist information for researchers, clinicians and other health professionals.
- Guidelines International NetworkFind Australian guidelines via the Guidelines International Network (GIN).
- Queensland Health - Clinical guidelines and proceduresQueensland Health guidelines collection
International
- National Institute for health and care Excellence (NICE) Guidance - UKCollection of NICE guidance
- National Guideline Clearinghouse (US)Resource from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) collecting summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
Appraisal of clinical guidelines
The benefits of practice guidelines are only as good as the quality of the guidelines themselves.
AGREE II (Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation) is an internationally recognised, validated tool for the critical appraisal of clinical guidelines.
