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Searching Skills Toolkit : Finding the Evidence.
Title:
Searching Skills Toolkit : Finding the Evidence.
Author:
De Brún, Caroline.
ISBN:
9781118463123
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (159 pages)
Series:
EBMT-EBM Toolkit Series
Contents:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction -- Evidence-based medicine -- Why search? -- How do you keep up to date -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 2: Where to start -- The hierarchy of evidence -- The hierarchy of searching -- Ask yourself: -- 1. How much time do I have? -- 2. What type of publication am I looking for? -- Internet sources for finding different publication types -- 3. Is my query about a specific topic? -- CHAPTER 3: Clinical information: sources -- Medical libraries -- The Internet -- Clinical search engines -- National guidelines -- International guidelines -- Sources containing secondary evidence -- Online databases -- Grey literature -- Professional organisations -- Networks and colleagues -- CHAPTER 4: Searching the Internet -- Search engines and directories -- Basic searching -- Advanced searching -- Tutorials -- Evaluating material found on the World Wide Web -- Other good quality Internet sources of information -- Saving useful websites -- Favourites and bookmarks -- CHAPTER 5: Formulating searchable questions -- Types of question -- Breaking down the clinical scenario -- Identifying keywords -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 6: Building a search strategy -- Identifying synonyms -- Synonym sources -- Truncation and wildcards -- Truncation -- Wildcards -- Combining terms (using Boolean operators) -- Venn diagrams of common Boolean operators: -- Construction of the final search strategy -- Refining search strategies (also known as limiting) -- CHAPTER 7: Free text and thesaurus searching -- Free text searching -- Thesaurus searching -- Browsing and mapping -- Advanced MeSH searching -- Explode and Single Term -- Focus -- Major and Minor Descriptors -- Subheadings -- Related terms -- CHAPTER 8: Searching healthcare databases -- Finding the evidence: key steps -- Medline -- PubMed (www.pubmed.gov).

Search process -- Free text searching -- MeSH searching -- Combining search terms -- Viewing the results -- Clipboard -- Related citations -- Saving or emailing records -- Ovid Medline (www.ovid.com) -- Search process -- Free text -- MeSH -- Combining search terms -- Viewing the results -- Printing, emailing or exporting records -- Find similar articles -- Other databases available via Ovid -- CINAHL (www.ebscohost.com/) -- Search process -- Free text searching -- Searching for Subject Terms -- Combining search terms -- Viewing the results -- Add to folder -- Personal account -- Saving search strategies -- Saving, printing, emailing or exporting records -- Find Similar Results -- Cochrane Library (www.thecochranelibrary.com) -- Search process -- Advanced search -- MeSH/Thesaurus -- Combining search terms -- Limiting searches -- Viewing the results -- Saving, exporting or printing records -- Saving searches -- Alerts -- User guides -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 9: Refining search results -- Limits -- Worked example (OvidSP Medline) -- Worked example (PubMed) -- Publication types -- Applying limits within your search strategy -- Methodological filters -- Worked example (Ovid Medline) -- Clinical Queries -- Worked example (PubMed) -- Sensitivity versus specificity -- Worked example (Ovid Medline) -- How do I do know whether to conduct a specific or sensitive search? -- Systematic reviews -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 10: Saving citations -- Logbooks -- Reference management software -- Subscription only -- Freely available -- EndNote -- Mendeley (www.mendeley.com/) -- Zotero (www.zotero.org/) -- Cite while you write -- CHAPTER 11: Citation pearl searching -- Related items -- Author search -- Keywords -- Journals -- Snowballing -- Alerts -- RSS feeds -- CHAPTER 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 -- NHS England (formerly the NHS Commissioning Board) (www.england.nhs.uk/) -- NICE - Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) (www.evidence.nhs.uk/qipp/) -- NICE commissioning guides (www.nice.org.uk/usingguidance/commissioningguides/bytopic.jsp) -- Right Care (www.rightcare.nhs.uk/) -- The Nuffield Trust (www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/) -- The King's Fund (www.kingsfund.org.uk/) -- Health Foundation (www.health.org.uk/) -- Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) (www.hqip.org.uk/) -- Networks -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 13: Patient information: sources -- Shared decision-making -- Poor quality health information -- Good quality health information -- Behind the Headlines -- Appraising online consumer health information -- Discern (www.discern.org.uk/) -- Trusted information sources -- NHS Choices (www.nhs.uk/) -- Department of Health Information Standard (www.theinformationstandard.org/) -- NICE Evidence Search (www.evidence.nhs.uk) -- Equip (www.equip.nhs.uk) -- Healthfinder.gov (www.healthfinder.gov/HealthTopics/) -- HealthTalk Online (www.healthtalkonline.org/) -- YouthHealthTalk Online (www.youthhealthtalk.org/) -- NHS Direct (www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/) -- NHS Shared Decision-Making (www.sdm.rightcare.nhs.uk/) -- Testing Treatments Interactive (www.testingtreatments.org) -- Rarer conditions -- Madisons Foundation (www.madisonsfoundation.org/) -- Third-party assistance -- Patient decision aids -- NHS Decision-Making Programme (www.sdm.rightcare.nhs.uk/pda/) -- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (www.decisionaid.ohri.ca/AZlist.html) -- International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) (www.ipdasi.org/2006%20IPDAS%20Quality%20Checklist.pdf).

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/index.cfm/tools-and-resources/patient-decision-aids/) -- Writing patient information -- NHS Identity (www.nhsidentity.nhs.uk/tools-and-resources/patient-information) -- The Department of Health Information Standard (www.theinformationstandard.org/) -- Keeping up to date with patient information -- The Patient Information Forum (www.pifonline.org.uk/) -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 14: Critical appraisal -- Definition -- Critical appraisal checklists -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 15: Glossary of terms -- APPENDIX 1: Ten tips for effective searching -- APPENDIX 2: Teaching resources -- Record your favourite resources -- Index.
Abstract:
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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