1. NICE Evidence Search workshop Revised short slide set with speakers’ notes June 2015 1

2. What is NICE Evidence Search ? Part of NICE Evidence Services, with clear links to other NICE services and resources A password free web portal linking to high quality medicine, health and social care information sources Relates to the care of patients and clients It does not contain all records from CINAHL, PubMed / Medline… links to the underlying science of healthcare. 2

3. Evidence Search Sources of information Over 300,000 selected resources from over 600 sources 3

4. whenever you want to find high quality consolidated sources of evidence relating directly to patient or client care These include: guidelines, care pathways, systematic reviews and medicines information when you need a quick answer: it can be a short-cut to a range of high quality, mostly full- text resources NB Evidence Search is not the place to search for primary research articles Consider using Evidence Search first: 4

5. Evidence search www.evidence.nhs.uk www.evidence.nhs.uk 5

6. Simple searching Problem or population e.g. dementia Review 3 sections of results screen 6

7. Results screen 7 Filters Centre Main results Key NICE produced or procured resources