Research Guides: Disabilities Health: Researchers

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Conducting Research

Chapter 16: Equity and specific populations (Cochrane)
Conducting Accessible Research: Including People With Disabilities in Public Health, Epidemiological and Outcomes Studies
From the American Public Health Association

Journals

Databases

PubMed Health sciences articles including clinical, basic sciences, and public health information. Interface incorporates Himmelfarb Library's search filters to support evidence-based practice. Coverage: 1950 - Present including corrections and daily updates. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. PubMed Tutorials
MEDLINE (Ovid) Health sciences articles including clinical, basic sciences, and public health information. Encompasses medicine, nursing, allied health, biological and physical sciences, and humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Coverage: 1946 - Present including PubMed citations, daily updates, and corrections. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and searchable via the Ovid interface. Ovid MEDLINE Tutorials
CINAHL Plus with Full Text Nursing and allied health research including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. Encompasses nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and seventeen allied health disciplines. Provides full-text access to 300+ titles, plus full-text linking to Himmelfarb's complete full-text collection. Coverage: 1976 - Present. Produced by EBSCO Publishing.
Scopus Interdisciplinary citation and abstract database covering more than 25,000 journals, tracking cited and citing literature. Includes PubMed and EMBASE citations plus broad coverage peer-reviewed articles across academic disciplines; also provides metrics designed to assess research impact for specific journals and compare titles within a discipline. Scopus Tutorials

Need Assistance with Research?

Are you currently working on a systematic review or research project and need assistance with search strategies and literature reviews? Himmelfarb Reference Librarians are skilled researchers who are trained to assist you with your review.

We can:

Identify search terms & expert search strategies
Select key databases and grey literature resources
Assist in finding relevant articles
Upload the search results into Covidence
Help in writing the methodology section of the review

The guide below provides more information regarding these services. Contact the Reference and Instruction department at himmelfarb@gwu.edu or 202-994-2962 to set up an appointment.

Systematic Review Service
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Selected MeSH Terms

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) refers to the list of terms used to index information in PubMed. The following links will take you to a PubMed search for articles indexed with the respective MeSH heading.

Disabilities Health: Researchers

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