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Medical Literature as a Resource for Evidence-Based Medicine. An Overview. Jarmila Potomková potomkov@tunw.upol.cz Palacky University Medical Library Vladimír Mihál mihalv@fnol.cz Professor of Pediatrics & Vice-Dean Palacky University Faculty of Medicine. Winter Semester List of Topics.
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Medical Literature as a Resource for Evidence-Based Medicine.An Overview. Jarmila Potomková potomkov@tunw.upol.cz Palacky University Medical Library Vladimír Mihál mihalv@fnol.cz Professor of Pediatrics & Vice-Dean Palacky University Faculty of Medicine
Winter SemesterList of Topics • Medical literature as a resource for evidence based medicine. An overview. • Biomedical literature resources and hierarchy of evidence. • MEDLINE - the most important biomedical database. PubMed online training. • MEDLINE - sample searches. Search strategy tips, Boolean operators, working with search results. MeSH, links to fulltext articles.
Study Materials • http://knihovna.upol.cz/lf • Vzdělávání (= training) • English Programme
Topic 1:AGENDA • 1A: Searching for „evidence“ • What is evidence-based medicine? • 1B: Clinical questions • Background vs. Foreground questions • 1C: Searching tips: • Books • Search engines • Google www.google.com (various documents) • Scholar Google www.scholar.google.com (journal articles) • Scirus www.scirus.com (various SCIENTIFIC documents) • Databases • MEDLINE (journal articles bibliographic records)
Clinical Question for Today A role of vaccination to prevent [recurrent] otitis media in children. Author: Prof. V. Mihál, MD, PhD. PU Medical Faculty Vice-Dean, Head of Pediatric Department
1C: Searching Tips BooksSearch engines Googlewww.google.com (mixed documents) Scholar Googlewww.scholar.google.com (journal articles) Sciruswww.scirus.com (various SCIENTIFIC documents)
1C: Searching Tips Books Search engines Googlewww.google.com (mixed documents) Scholar Google www.scholar.google.com (journal articles) Scirus www.scirus.com (various SCIENTIFIC documents)
Self-study Assignment 1 • Identify types of first 40 documents, eg. • Company websites • Journal articles • Fulltext version • Bibliographic record only • Bibliographic record + abstract • Database • Educational material (universities, professional societies) • Patents • Patient information • Library catalogs • Business information (eg.pharmaceutical companies) • Others (specify)
1C: Searching Tips Books Search engines Googlewww.google.com (mixed documents) Scholar Google www.scholar.google.com (journal articles) Scirus www.scirus.com (various SCIENTIFIC documents)
References GiustiniD. How Google is changing medicine. BMJ 2005 331: 1487-1488 Tang H, Hwee Kwoon Ng J. Googling for a diagnosis--use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet based study BMJ 2006;333(7579):1143-1145.
1C: Searching Tips Books Search engines Googlewww.google.com (mixed documents) Scholar Google www.scholar.google.com (journal articles) Scirus www.scirus.com (various documents) SCIENTIFIC
Document Types Journal sources (385) ScienceDirect (238) MEDLINE / PubMed (105) BioMed Central (23) Pubmed Central (15) SAGE Publications (3) Hindawi Publishing Corporation (1) less Preferred web (201) Patent Offices (122) NDLTD (44) - Australasian Digital Thesis Program Digital Archives (20) more Other web (5,935) File types HTML (5,053) PDF (1,604) Word (50) PPT