Get High Quality Evidence and National Guidance from HPAC
HPAC enables you to search for high quality evidence and national guidance and provides in most cases direct links to the original documents.
You can do a search for a physical resource held in the library which will generate a link to high quality evidence and guidance related to that resource. Alternatively, you can do a direct search for evidence and guidance. The evidence comes from several high quality sources including the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) - Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at York University and The Cochrane Library. The guidance is primarily from NICE and the Department of Health. The evidence and guidance is provided through an interoperability project with the National Library for Public Health.
How to search for evidence and guidance related to a resource
- Do a normal search for a physical resource such as a book, leaflet or video
- On the list of results click on the title to see full details
- When the details are displayed scroll down and you will see links to Evidence from NLPH and Guidance from NLPH
- Click on these links and you will see a list of evidence or guidance related to your search term or subject heading
- Click on the appropriate links to view the original article
How to search directly for evidence and guidance
- Do a normal search as if you were searching for a physical resource in the library, but use the Evidence - NLPH or Guidance - NLPH drop downs as appropriate
- On the list of evidence or guidance results click on the appropriate links to view the original articles