Where do I find the evidence I need?

Knowledge Network

• The Scottish Knowledge Network, provided by NHS Education for Scotland, should give you access – or links – to all the sources of evidence which you need.
• The Knowledge Network provides you with a search engine which lets you search everything within the Knowledge Network library.
• It also gives you links to other evidence sources, such as the Cochrane library.
• Best practice statements are listed within the Knowledge Network.

Cochrane Library

• Wiley online library
• If you are looking for synthesised evidence in the form of systematic reviews, use the Cochrane Library. The Cochrane Library contains:
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews – which gives you access to all Cochrane reviews
  • Database of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) – which gives you abstracts to systematic reviews which have not been carried out by the Cochrane Collaboration.

DORIS

• DORIS is the Database Of Research In Stroke
• DORIS has been supported by the Scottish Government’s National Advisory Committee for Stroke to give you easy access to high quality stroke evidence
• DORIS gives you easy access to guidelines, Cochrane reviews, other systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials.