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Finding Quality

Finding Quality. Health Information. On the Agenda. What’s out there – the good, the not-so-good (the bad, and of course, the ugly) Prep-work before you search What’s your strategy? General search tips Searching for Professional Literature Sources and Tips for PubMed Searching the Web

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Finding Quality

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  1. Finding Quality HealthInformation

  2. On the Agenda • What’s out there – the good, the not-so-good (the bad, and of course, the ugly) • Prep-work before you search • What’s your strategy? General search tips • Searching for Professional Literature • Sources and Tips for PubMed • Searching the Web • Finding the Good (using quality criteria) • Tips for Google • Recommended Resources

  3. What’s Out There?

  4. Before you search.. • What is your objective? Just need a few articles or want a more thorough search? • What type of information are you looking for? This determines the best resource(s) to use. • Think about your topic – what search terms will you use? Are there synonyms or other ways to express that concept? Use specific terms whenever possible. • Get to know the search language that the search engine or database uses What’s Your Strategy? Remember – GIGO garbage in, garbage out

  5. Search Tips

  6. Today’s Example (diet OR nutrition) AND (pubert* OR maturation OR menarche) AND ((breast OR mammary) AND (cancer OR neoplas*))

  7. Searching the Professional Literature

  8. PubMed

  9. Search: Limits • Set limits to refine the search by the characteristics or time period you want

  10. Reviewing the Results Display of Results • Default setting • Summary format • 20 items per page • when PubMed added • Use “Display Settings” drop-down arrow to temporarily change the default. • Permanently change the display default in your My NCBI account.

  11. Similar Items On the Results page On the article record

  12. The Article Abstract What is the research problem and why is it important? How did they conduct the study? What did the researchers find? What do the results mean?

  13. Getting the Full-Text

  14. Online Health Information • 8 million Americans go online each dayto search for health information • 75% do not review the quality of the website • 58% say the health search had an impact on a treatment decision, yet only 33% talked with doctor about what was found online.Source: Fox S. Online Health Search 2006. Pew Internet & American Life Project.http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2006/Online-Health-Search-2006.aspx

  15. Quality or not? RYT Hospital Dwayne Medical Center

  16. Finding the Good … specific for health websites

  17. Finding the Good: the WHO behind the website

  18. Finding the Good: the WHAT behind the website

  19. Quick Search Tips for Google • Use more than one search engine – Try Bing, Yahoo, or Chrome • Check out the Advanced Search feature – first, do a search, then click on the Settings icon and select Advanced Search

  20. Health Literacy AMA – Health Literacy http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/ama-foundation/our-programs/public-health/health-literacy-program.page ATSDR Environmental Health Education for the Public http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/emes/public/index.html ATSDR Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit Training Module http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/emes/health_professionals/pediatrics.html CDC Health Literacy http://www.cdc.gov/healthliteracy/ HHS – Health Literacy Online http://www.health.gov/healthliteracyonline/ NLM Health Literacy Information Resources http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/queries/health_literacy.html Plain Language – Health Literacy http://www.plainlanguage.gov/populartopics/health_literacy/

  21. Multilingual Resources Asian American Health: Materials in Asian Languages http://asianamericanhealth.nlm.nih.gov/AsianLang.html Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Filipino/Tagalog, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, South Asian, Thai, Vietnamese Cancer Council – Online Library Language http://www.cancersa.org.au/aspx/search_rl_lang.aspx Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Filipino, Greek, Italian, Khmer, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Tigrinya, Turkish, Vietnamese Stanford Health Library – Multilingual Health Information http://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/resources/foreign/ Range of African, Asian, and European languages Virginia Commonwealth University Cancer Center – Multilingual Cancer Resources http://www.healthinformation.vcu.edu/multilingual-cancer-resources.html Links to other websites with predominantly Spanish language versions

  22. Breast Cancer and the Environment

  23. Government

  24. Non-Profit Groups

  25. Non-Profits

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