Caroline De Brún, Nicola Pearce-Smith

Searching Skills Toolkit (eBook, PDF)

Finding the Evidence

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118463123
• Artikelnr.: 39973723

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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 specifi c 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 fi lters
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