Research Guides: Advanced Practice Nursing: Limiting Your Search

Limiting Your CINAHL Search

CINAHL offers a variety of ways to limit your search. To learn more about how to limit by a specific criterion, select a limiter from the list below.

Field Tags Sometimes you may want to narrow your search to a particular field in a citation, such as article title, investigator, or substance name. This video demonstrates limiting by field tag in both CINAHL and PubMed.
Gender & Age This video demonstrates how to limit by gender and age in CINAHL and PubMed.
Journal Title This video demonstrates how to limit by journal title in CINAHL and PubMed.
Language This video demonstrates how to limit by language in CINAHL and PubMed.
Peer-reviewed articles (CINAHL) This video demonstrates how to limit to peer-reviewed journals in CINAHL. While most of the articles in PubMed do undergo a peer-review process, there is no listing or means to limit your results by this criteria. For more information on peer reviewed journals and PubMed, see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/peerrev.html.
Publication Date This video demonstrates how to limit by publication date in CINAHL and PubMed.
Species This video demonstrates how to limit by species in CINAHL and PubMed.

CINAHL allows you to limit to a variety of publication types. To learn more about how to limit by a specific type, select a link from the list below.

Case Studies This video demonstrates how to limit to case studies in CINAHL and PubMed.
Clinical Trials This video demonstrates how to limit to clinical trials in CINAHL and PubMed.
Meta Analyses This video demonstrates how to limit to meta analyses in CINAHL and PubMed.
Practice Guidelines This video demonstrates how to limit to practice guidelines in CINAHL and PubMed.
Quantitative/Qualitative Studies This video demonstrates how to limit to quantitative and qualitative studies in CINAHL and PubMed.
Questionnaires and Scales (CINAHL) This video demonstrates how to limit to questionnaires and scales in CINAHL.
Review Articles This video demonstrates how to limit to review articles in CINAHL and PubMed.
Research Articles (CINAHL) This video demonstrates how to limit to research articles in CINAHL.
Research Instruments (CINAHL) This video demonstrates how to limit to research instruments in CINAHL.
Systematic Reviews This video demonstrates how to limit to systematic reviews in CINAHL and PubMed.

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