Searching skills toolkit: finding the evidence
Caroline De Brún, Nicola Pearce-Smith; series editors, Carl Heneghan, Rafael Perera, Douglas Badenoch
- Resource Type:
- E-Book
- Edition:
- Second edition
- Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex : BMJ Books, Wiley Blackwell, 2014
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- Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
- Evidence-based medicine
- Why search?
- How do you keep up to date
- Further reading
- ch. 2 Where to start
- hierarchy of evidence
- hierarchy of searching
- 1. How much time do I have?
- 2. What type of publication am I looking for?
- 3. Is my query about a specific topic?
- ch. 3 Clinical information: sources
- Medical libraries
- Internet
- ch. 4 Searching the Internet
- Search engines and directories
- Evaluating material found on the World Wide Web
- Saving useful websites
- ch. 5 Formulating searchable questions
- Types of question
- Breaking down the clinical scenario
- Identifying keywords
- Further reading
- ch. 6 Building a search strategy
- Identifying synonyms
- Synonym sources
- Truncation and wildcards
- Combining terms (using Boolean operators)
- Construction of the final search strategy
- ch. 7 Free text and thesaurus searching
- Free text searching
- Thesaurus searching
- ch. 8 Searching healthcare databases
- Finding the evidence: key steps
- Medline
- PubMed
- Ovid Medline
- CINAHL
- Cochrane Library
- Further reading
- ch. 9 Refining search results
- Limits
- Methodological filters
- Clinical Queries
- Sensitivity versus specificity
- Systematic reviews
- Further reading
- ch. 10 Saving citations
- Logbooks
- Reference management software
- ch. 11 Citation pearl searching
- Related items
- Author search
- Keywords
- Journals
- Snowballing
- Alerts
- RSS feeds
- ch. 12 Quality improvement and value: sources
- Examples of quality improvement and value questions
- Current awareness
- Searching for evidence on quality improvement and value
- Other useful sources of information
- Networks
- Further reading
- ch. 13 Patient information: sources
- Shared decision-making
- Poor quality health information
- Good quality health information
- Appraising online consumer health information
- Trusted information sources
- Rarer conditions
- Third-party assistance
- Patient decision aids
- Writing patient information
- Keeping up to date with patient information
- Further reading
- ch. 14 Critical appraisal
- Definition
- Critical appraisal checklists
- Further reading
- ch. 15 Glossary of terms.
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- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 19, 2013). - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Digital Characteristics:
- text file
- Call Numbers:
- R853.S94 D4 2014eb
- ISBNs:
- 9781118463123 (electronic bk.)
9781118463130 [Invalid] - OCLC Numbers:
- 863823795
- Other Control Numbers:
- 662626 (source: EbpS)
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