Applied Nursing Research
Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 98-103 , May 2008

Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature search strategies for identifying methodologically sound causation and prognosis studies

  • Cindy Walker-Dilks, MLS

      Affiliations

    • Health Information Research Unit, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
    • ,
  • Nancy L. Wilczynski, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Health Information Research Unit, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 905 525 9140x22780; fax: +1 905 546 0401.
    • ,
  • R. Brian Haynes, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Health Information Research Unit, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
    • Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
    • ,
  • for the Hedges Team

Received 13 February 2006 ,Accepted 14 April 2006.

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☆ This study was funded by the National Library of Medicine, USA.

☆☆ All authors had full access to all the data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.

★ N.L.W. and R.B.H. prepared grant submissions in relation to this project. All authors drafted, commented on, and approved the final manuscript. All authors also supplied intellectual content to the collection and analysis of the data. N.L.W. and C.W.D. participated in the data collection, and all authors were involved in data analysis.

PII: S0897-1897(06)00055-3

doi: 10.1016/j.apnr.2006.04.004

Applied Nursing Research
Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 98-103 , May 2008

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