1. Search engines

Healthcare specific search engines are freely available resources which allow you to search across a number of good quality, health-related resources.  You will find a wide range of different types of information, including high quality evidence.  These search engines are a particularly good source of secondary evidence in the form of systematic reviews, evidence summaries and guidelines.

Click on the logos to try out these resources

Evidence Search Evidence Search
  • Provided and managed by NICE
  • Filters enable you to narrow down your search. Filter by type of information to restrict your search to high quality evidence like systematic reviews
  • Good source of guidelines
TRIP TRIP
  • PICO search available
  • Results colour-coded by type of information - easy to identify high quality evidence
  • Good source of both primary and secondary evidence