Searching Skills Toolkit: Finding the Evidence

Cover......Page 1
Title page......Page 5
Copyright page......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Evidence-based medicine......Page 11
Why search?......Page 12
How do you keep up to date......Page 14
Further reading......Page 15
The hierarchy of evidence......Page 16
The hierarchy of searching......Page 17
1. How much time do I have?......Page 18
Internet sources for finding different publication types......Page 20
3. Is my query about a specific topic?......Page 23
The Internet......Page 25
Clinical search engines......Page 26
International guidelines......Page 29
Sources containing secondary evidence......Page 30
Online databases......Page 32
Networks and colleagues......Page 34
Basic searching......Page 36
Advanced searching......Page 37
Evaluating material found on the World Wide Web......Page 39
Other good quality Internet sources of information......Page 40
Favourites and bookmarks......Page 45
Types of question......Page 47
Breaking down the clinical scenario......Page 48
Further reading......Page 49
Identifying synonyms......Page 51
Truncation......Page 52
Wildcards......Page 53
Venn diagrams of common Boolean operators:......Page 56
Construction of the final search strategy......Page 57
Refining search strategies (also known as limiting)......Page 59
Free text searching......Page 60
Thesaurus searching......Page 61
Browsing and mapping......Page 62
Explode and Single Term......Page 63
Related terms......Page 64
Finding the evidence: key steps......Page 65
Search process......Page 67
Free text searching......Page 69
MeSH searching......Page 70
Combining search terms......Page 71
Viewing the results......Page 72
Related citations......Page 73
Search process......Page 74
Free text......Page 75
MeSH......Page 76
Printing, emailing or exporting records......Page 77
CINAHL (www.ebscohost.com/)......Page 78
Free text searching......Page 79
Combining search terms......Page 80
Viewing the results......Page 81
Saving search strategies......Page 82
Cochrane Library (www.thecochranelibrary.com)......Page 83
Search process......Page 84
Advanced search......Page 85
MeSH/Thesaurus......Page 86
Combining search terms......Page 87
Limiting searches......Page 88
Viewing the results......Page 89
Further reading......Page 90
Limits......Page 91
Worked example (OvidSP Medline)......Page 92
Publication types......Page 93
Applying limits within your search strategy......Page 94
Worked example (Ovid Medline)......Page 95
Worked example (PubMed)......Page 96
Sensitivity versus specificity......Page 97
Worked example (Ovid Medline)......Page 98
Systematic reviews......Page 99
Further reading......Page 100
Logbooks......Page 103
Freely available......Page 104
EndNote......Page 105
Mendeley (www.mendeley.com/)......Page 106
Cite while you write......Page 107
Related items......Page 108
Keywords......Page 109
Snowballing......Page 110
RSS feeds......Page 111
Current awareness......Page 112
Searching for evidence on quality improvement and value......Page 113
NHS England (formerly the NHS Commissioning Board) (www.england.nhs.uk/)......Page 115
NICE – Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) (www.evidence.nhs.uk/qipp/)......Page 116
NICE commissioning guides (www.nice.org.uk/usingguidance/commissioningguides/bytopic.jsp)......Page 117
Right Care (www.rightcare.nhs.uk/)......Page 118
The Nuffield Trust (www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/)......Page 119
The King’s Fund (www.kingsfund.org.uk/)......Page 120
Health Foundation (www.health.org.uk/)......Page 121
Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) (www.hqip.org.uk/)......Page 122
Networks......Page 123
Further reading......Page 124
Shared decision-making......Page 125
Good quality health information......Page 126
Appraising online consumer health information......Page 127
NHS Choices (www.nhs.uk/)......Page 128
Equip (www.equip.nhs.uk)......Page 129
Rarer conditions......Page 130
International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) (www.ipdasi.org/2006%20IPDAS%20Quality%20Checklist.pdf)......Page 131
The Patient Information Forum (www.pifonline.org.uk/)......Page 132
Further reading......Page 133
Critical appraisal checklists......Page 134
Further reading......Page 135
CHAPTER 15: Glossary of terms......Page 136
APPENDIX 1: Ten tips for effective searching......Page 145
APPENDIX 2: Teaching resources......Page 148
Record your favourite resources......Page 152
Index......Page 153