NICE Evidence Search: Resource of the week #34

What is it?

NICE Evidence Search is a healthcare-based search engine provided by NICE. You can use it to search across a wide range of approved healthcare-based, mainly secondary, resources. It can be really useful to help you to find high-level evidence such as summaries and guidelines.

Screen-shot of the home page for NICE Evidence Search

Key Features

Evidence Search offers you a simple search box to enter your search terms. Results are presented according to relevance. You can then use the options on the left-hand-side to filter the results according to:

Evidence Type
Area of Interest
Source
Date

You can also select to view only those items from NICE accredited resources.

How can it help you?

This is an excellent search engine that can help you to focus on good quality healthcare resources, available in the UK.

How to access it?

NICE Evidence Search is freely available on the Internet. Many of the resources it finds are also freely available, however you may come across some where the full-text is not listed – remember to check our subscribed resources.

eTutorial

Try our etutorial Finding Information on the Internet to learn more about Internet resources.

More Help

Check our online guides page for more help.

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