Finding Guidelines in CINAHL
There are two ways to find guidelines in CINAHL: Using filters, and looking for articles in which the word "guideline" appears up in the title.
1) Using a Title Search
If you want to limit your search in CINAHL to those where the word “guideline” is in the title, type the word Guideline* into the first search box and change the drop-down box to Title. Then fill in the search boxes below with your search terms and hit Search.
2) Using a filter (this usually returns slightly more than the method above)
To find guidelines using the filter, follow these steps:
1) Open CINAHL and click on "CINAHL Subject Headings.” On the next pages, type in "Guidelines."
2) From there, click on “Practice Guidelines” then “Search Database. "
3) That will put the search term “Practice guidelines” into the search boxes. Just fill in the search boxes below with your topic's search terms and hit Search.
This will return all articles that were tagged as being a guideline and also match the subject term you entered.
