Health & Medicine Database Search Tips: CINAHL

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• Access one of the databases through a library Web page or research guide
• Click Sign In
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Once a personal EBSCOhost account is created:

• Download the app from the App Store
• Sign in using the username and password you created for your personal account

Note:  These tutorials show the old EBSCO interface; the new interface was implemented July 2024.  New videos using the new interface are forthcoming.

• Use quotation marks when searching phrases
  • e.g., "urinary tract infection"
• Use Boolean operators wisely
  • e.g., "urinary tract infection" OR uti
• Use an asterisk (*) to search for all variations of a word
  • e.g., diagnos*=diagnose, diagnosis, diagnosing, diagnostic
  • Be careful...if you use the asterisk in the wrong place, you may get results that have nothing to do with your topic
    • e.g., dia*=diamond, dial, dialysis, diabetes, etc.
    • e.g., diag*=diagonal, diagram, diagraph, etc.
• Limit to a specific date range; default sort order is by relevance--this can be changed to sort by date, most recent at the top
• Limit language to English
• Can limit to any author is a nurse
• Can limit to evidence-based practice
• Can limit by publication type (case study, research, etc.)