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The general purpose of Evidence-Based Nursing is to select from the health-related literature* those articles reporting studies and reviews that warrant immediate attention by nurses attempting to keep pace with important advances in their profession. These articles are described, critiqued and commented on by nurses and other health professionals. The specific purposes of Evidence-Based Nursing are:
■ to identify, using predefined criteria, the best quantitative and qualitative original and review articles on the meaning, cause, course, assessment, prevention, treatment, or economics of health problems managed by nurses and on quality improvement
■ to provide a description and expert commentary on the context of each article, its methods, and the clinical applications that its findings warrant
■ to disseminate the summaries in a timely fashion to nurses
The RCN Publishing Company Limited and the BMJ Publishing Group publish Evidence-Based Nursing.
Criteria for selection and review of articles for abstracting
All articles in a journal issue are considered for inclusion if, based on their abstracts, they meet the following basic and category-specific criteria:
Basic criteria
■ original or review articles
■ in English
■ quantitative and qualitative studies
■ about topics that are important to the clinical practice of nurses in any setting
■ analysis of data consistent with the study question
Category-specific criteria (quantitative studies)
Studies of prevention or treatment must also include:
■ random allocation of participants …
Footnotes
↵* Journals currently reviewed
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
Addiction
Age and Ageing
American Journal of Gastroenterology
American Journal of Medicine
American Journal of Psychiatry
Annals of Emergency Medicine
Annals of Internal Medicine
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Annals of Surgery
ANS Advances in Nursing Sciences
Applied Nursing Research
Archives of Disease in Childhood Neonatal and Fetal
Archives of General Psychiatry
Archives of Internal Medicine
Archives of Neurology
Archives of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Arthritis and Rheumatism
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Birth
BJOG
BMC Psychiatry
BMJ
British Journal of Clinical Psychology
British Journal of General Practice
British Journal of Psychiatry
British Journal of Surgery
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
Canadian Journal of Infection Control
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
Canadian Respiratory Journal
Circulation
CMAJ
Cochrane Database of Systematic Review
Critical Care Medicine
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
Diabetes Care
Diabetic Medicine
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
Evid Rep Technol Assess (Full Rep)
Gastroenterology
Gut
Health Education and Behavior
Health Psychology
Health technology assessment reports
Heart
Journal of Nursing Scholarship
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
JAMA
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Journal of Affective Disorders
Journal of Anxiety Disorders
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Journal of Clinical Nursing
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Journal of Family Practice
Journal of Infectious Disease
Journal of Manipulative and Physical Therapy
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
Journal of Paediatrics
Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Journal of Vascular Surgery
Lancet
Medical Care
Medical Journal of Australia
Medicine
Midwifery
Molecular Psychiatry
Neurology
New England Journal of Medicine
Pain
Paediatrics
PLOS Medicine
Psychiatric Services
Psychological Medicine
Psychosomatic Medicine
Qualitative Health Research
Rheumatology
Schizophrenia Bulletin
Schizophrenia Research
Social Science and Medicine
Spine
Stroke
Thorax
Western Journal of Nursing Research