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Expert PubMed Searching

Expert PubMed Searching. Sandra Halliday, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.L.I.S. Health Sciences Librarian Bracken Library, Queen’s University. Outline. Goal and Objectives Six Top Reasons to Search PubMed Evidence Based Health Care Tour of the PubMed Search Screen. Outline.

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Expert PubMed Searching

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  1. Expert PubMed Searching Sandra Halliday, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.L.I.S. Health Sciences Librarian Bracken Library, Queen’s University

  2. Outline • Goal and Objectives • Six Top Reasons to Search PubMed • Evidence Based Health Care • Tour of the PubMed Search Screen

  3. Outline Free Full Text Resources PubMed Searching – Novice User PubMed Searching – Advanced User Conclusion

  4. Goal: To encourage information professionals to develop effective and efficient searching skills using PubMed Limits Single Citation Matcher Tree Explode MeSH Focus Clinical Queries History My NCBI Clipboard Evidence Based Health Care Journals Database

  5. Six Reasons To Search PubMed • Premier bibliographic database for the health and life sciences fields • Consists of 13 subsets • Contains the must current Medline database • Search interface is regularly updated • Access to value added resources • PubMed is free with links tofree full text

  6. Evidence-Based Health Care • “The conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.”1 1McKibbon, A et al. 1999. PDQ: evidence-based principles and practice. Hamilton, ON: B.C. Decker Inc., p. 2.

  7. Five Steps of Evidence-Based Health Care2 1. Define the question that needs to be answered. 2. Collect the evidence to answer the question. 3. Critically appraise the evidence gathered for its validity and relevance. 4. Integrate the evidence and patient factors to make and carry out the decision. 5. Evaluate the whole process with a view to improving future decision-making. 2McKibbon, A et al. 1999. PDQ: evidence-based principles and practice. Hamilton, ON: B.C. Decker Inc., p. 2-3.

  8. Formulate your specific question • Patient • Intervention • Comparison Intervention • Expected Outcome

  9. Sample Clinical Question In patients with soft tissue lacerations, is the use of clean non-sterile gloves for the repair of lacerations as safe as sterile gloves?

  10. Sample Clinical Question

  11. How to Access PubMed pubmed.gov

  12. Tour of the PubMed Search Screen

  13. PubMed Searching -Novice User

  14. Clinical Question #1 When health care professionals wear N95 respirators, does it prevent the transmission of respiratory infections among hospitalized patients and other staff?

  15. PubMed Searching -Advanced User

  16. Clinical Question #2 What treatments are effective in the eradication and decolonization of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus in patients?

  17. My NCBI

  18. JournalsDatabase Scenario Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology Clin Infect Dis

  19. Single Citation Manager Scenario Recent article on hospital associated Clostridium difficile infection in the Infection control and Hospital Epidemiology journal

  20. Clinical Queries Search by Clinical Study Category Find Systematic Reviews Medical Genetics Searches

  21. Conclusion There are difference ways to conduct a search in PubMed and once you are familiar with the options, you can develop a style that meets your requirements.

  22. Any Questions ??? Photographs by Karen Halliday, B.A., M.L.I.S.

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