If you've worked with Nurses or nursing students on searching the literature, you may have encountered some of the strict parameters -- esp. the 5-year rule or nurse-as-author -- where they won't accept anything older, even if that's when the bulk of the research was done, and the question is considered settled. Even though databases like CINAHL allow us the functionality to use those limits, it may zero out useful results.
The lead author, Eleanor Truex is an Ascension Medical Librarian working in the Chicago area.
By Eleanor Shanklin Truex, Jean Hillyer, Emily N Spinner
The five-year rule must die. Despite an extensive literature search, the
origins of the five-year rule remain unknown. In an era when the nursing
profession is so focused on evidence-based practice, any approach that
arbitrarily limits literature searches to articles published in the previous
five years lacks scientific basis. We explore some reasons for the
pervasiveness of the practice and suggest that librarians need to engage
with nursing faculty, who are well-positioned to be change agents in this
practice.
Keywords: 5-year Rule; Date Limits; Date Range; Literature Searches;
Nurses; Nursing Education; Nursing Faculty; Nursing Research; Search LimitsDOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2024.1768
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39119160
J Med Libr Assoc. 2024 Apr 01. 112(2): 140-141
Here is the previous article published on this project:
Exploring the Use of Common Strict Search Criteria in Nursing Literature Searches. Truex ES, Spinner E, Hillyer J, Ettien A, Wade S, Calhoun C, Wolf G, Hedreen R, Heimlich L, Nickum A, Vonderheid SC. Nurse Educ. 2022 Dec 30. doi: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001353. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36728635. Link to Article.
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