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.
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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.
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Gender & Age This video demonstrates how to limit by gender and age in CINAHL and PubMed.
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Journal Title This video demonstrates how to limit by journal title in CINAHL and PubMed.
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Language This video demonstrates how to limit by language in CINAHL and PubMed.
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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.
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Publication Date This video demonstrates how to limit by publication date in CINAHL and PubMed.
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Species This video demonstrates how to limit by species in CINAHL and PubMed.
Publication Type
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.
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Case Studies This video demonstrates how to limit to case studies in CINAHL and PubMed.
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Clinical Trials This video demonstrates how to limit to clinical trials in CINAHL and PubMed.
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Meta Analyses This video demonstrates how to limit to meta analyses in CINAHL and PubMed.
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Practice Guidelines This video demonstrates how to limit to practice guidelines in CINAHL and PubMed.
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Quantitative/Qualitative Studies This video demonstrates how to limit to quantitative and qualitative studies in CINAHL and PubMed.
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Questionnaires and Scales (CINAHL) This video demonstrates how to limit to questionnaires and scales in CINAHL.
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Review Articles This video demonstrates how to limit to review articles in CINAHL and PubMed.
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Research Articles (CINAHL) This video demonstrates how to limit to research articles in CINAHL.
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Research Instruments (CINAHL) This video demonstrates how to limit to research instruments in CINAHL.
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Systematic Reviews This video demonstrates how to limit to systematic reviews in CINAHL and PubMed.