Searching Skills Toolkit - Caroline De Brún, Nicola Pearce-Smith

Searching Skills Toolkit

Finding the Evidence
Buch | Softcover
160 Seiten
2014 | 2nd edition
BMJ Books (Verlag)
978-1-118-46313-0 (ISBN)
28,84 inkl. MwSt
This brand new, fully-updated user-friendly toolkit helps with searching for medical evidence, explaining how to learn simple search skills, directing the reader to the right resources to find the best evidence to support their decision-making an essential skill for everyone involved in health care research and development. .
Searching Skills Toolkit is an expert guide to help you find the clinical evidence you need more easily and effectively.

Clearly presented with useful tips and advice, flow charts, diagrams and real-life clinical scenarios, it shows the best methods for finding quality evidence. From deciding where to start, to building a search strategy, refining results and critical appraisal, it is a step-by-step guide to the process of finding healthcare evidence, and is designed for use by all health and social care professionals.

This second edition has been expanded with new chapters on searching for sources to support evidence-based management decision making and how to better enable your patients to make informed choices. It has also been fully updated to include new web sources, open source reference management software, and new training resources and exercises.

Searching Skills Toolkit is an ideal reference for doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, managers and decision makers, researchers and students.

Caroline De Brún, Clinical Support Librarian, University College London, UK Nicola Pearce-Smith, Information Scientist, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Oxford, UK

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

Evidence-based medicine 1

Why search? 2

How do you keep up to date 4

Further reading 5

Chapter 2 Where to start 6

The hierarchy of evidence 6

The hierarchy of searching 7

1. How much time do I have? 8

2. What type of publication am I looking for? 10

3. Is my query about a specific topic? 13

Chapter 3 Clinical information: sources 15

Medical libraries 15

The Internet 15

Chapter 4 Searching the Internet 26

Search engines and directories 26

Evaluating material found on the World Wide Web 29

Saving useful websites 35

Chapter 5 Formulating searchable questions 37

Types of question 37

Breaking down the clinical scenario 38

Identifying keywords 39

Further reading 39

Chapter 6 Building a search strategy 41

Identifying synonyms 41

Synonym sources 42

Truncation and wildcards 42

Combining terms (using Boolean operators) 46

Construction of the final search strategy 47

Chapter 7 Free text and thesaurus searching 50

Free text searching 50

Thesaurus searching 51

Chapter 8 Searching healthcare databases 55

Finding the evidence: key steps 55

Medline 57

PubMed 57

Ovid Medline 64

CINAHL 68

Cochrane Library 73

Further reading 80

Chapter 9 Refining search results 81

Limits 81

Methodological filters 85

Clinical Queries 86

Sensitivity versus specificity 87

Systematic reviews 89

Further reading 90

Chapter 10 Saving citations 93

Logbooks 93

Reference management software 94

Chapter 11 Citation pearl searching 98

Related items 98

Author search 99

Keywords 99

Journals 100

Snowballing 100

Alerts 101

RSS feeds 101

Chapter 12 Quality improvement and value: sources 102

Examples of quality improvement and value questions 102

Current awareness 102

Searching for evidence on quality improvement and value 103

Other useful sources of information 105

Networks 113

Further reading 114

Chapter 13 Patient information: sources 115

Shared decision-making 115

Poor quality health information 116

Good quality health information 116

Appraising online consumer health information 117

Trusted information sources 118

Rarer conditions 120

Third-party assistance 121

Patient decision aids 121

Writing patient information 122

Keeping up to date with patient information 122

Further reading 123

Chapter 14 Critical appraisal 124

Definition 124

Critical appraisal checklists 124

Further reading 125

Chapter 15 Glossary of terms 126

Appendix 1 Ten tips for effective searching 135

Appendix 2 Teaching resources 138

Record your favourite resources 142

Index 143

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.1.2014
Reihe/Serie EBMT-EBM Toolkit Series
Sprache englisch
Maße 109 x 170 mm
Gewicht 145 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete
Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege
ISBN-10 1-118-46313-7 / 1118463137
ISBN-13 978-1-118-46313-0 / 9781118463130
Zustand Neuware
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