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Database Searched NHS Evidence Cochrane Library AMED - covers the fields of complementary or alternative medicine 1985 - BNI – covers nursing and midwifery with a UK bias 1985 - CINAHL - covers all aspects of nursing and allied health disciplines 1981 - EMBASE - provides current and comprehensive information on drugs and pharmacology, and all other aspects of human medicine and related disciplines 1980 - Health Business Elite - contains full text content from 480 journals, detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management. HMIC - compilation of data from two sources, the Department of Healths Library and Information Services and King’s Fund Information and Library Service. MEDLINE -covers the whole field of medicine including dentistry, veterinary medicine and medical psychology. PsycINFO database provides extensive international coverage of the literature on psychology and allied fields. Google Scholar TRIP Database Additional Databases Searched To access full text links in this search you will require an Athens password from the NHS. If you don’t have one follow this link /nhs/nhseng/ and complete the form. For other items not available in full text e-mail your list and contact details to library.services@fade.nhs.uk Searchers Comments Literature Search Results The literature search has been done in two parts. Part 1 – The first part of the search was performed on the NHS Evidence portal, Google Scholar and the Trip Database. NHS Evidence is a new search engine that provides a simple search of many sources of clinical and social care information. This search engine does not search journal and book databases (the bibliographic databases are searched in part 2). Click on the link below to see the results, which are presented in a Google like format. Google Scholar retrieves scholarly items from a variety of undefined sources. The Trip Da