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Nursing - Library Resources: Levels of Evidence

This guide will help you find academic journal articles, books and websites for research in the area of nursing.

Levels of Evidence

Levels of evidence are very important to keep in mind when conducting medical research.  Don't forget to consider the level of evidence your source provides, no matter where you find it (database, free web, section of a book, etc.).  Start at the top of the pyramid for the most reliable evidence, keeping in mind that research may not yet exist or may not be feasible for some questions.  Definitions of these articles types can be found here.

Pyramid diagram that shows the level of evidence provided by different source types

Reading Scholarly Articles

Reading Scholarly Journal Articles

This video will define the standard sections of scientific journal articles and suggest an order for reading them.

This video was created by the University of Kansas Libraries and is under a CC BY 4.0 license.

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