Useful Limits

Two of the most useful limits for health sciences students are the Publication Date and English Language filters. For most assignments, you will need information published in the last 5 years. Filtering for English language will limit your results to those written in English. 

There are many other useful limits in CINAHL, but if you use too many at once, you may end up with zero results. If this happens, you may need to reduce the number of filters you use.

As a word of caution, I do not recommend using the PDF Full Text filter. Many articles may be easily accessed in full text by clicking a link that takes you outside of the database. If you select the PDF Full Text filter, you will exclude all of these useful articles.