W5L5 Basic Literature Searching

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T/F There is a 5 study minimum number of RRL

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False, no minimum number

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The themes or division of literature is based on?

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Statement of the problem (so if una namention sa problem ay yung demographics, then dapat una rin sa RRL yung demographics)

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Reasons for searching the literature

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- Highlights both the strengths and weaknesses of the research

- Gain a critical understanding of your field

- Opportunity to think about what has been done in your field

- Able to think about what has not/needs to be done

- Justification for research

- Answer specific pt case-related (clinical practice)

- To learn more/Education

- Determine current best practice

- Support and answer

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Types of informations

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Theory

Facts

Opinion

Methods

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Type of info which is either theoretical or conceptual

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Theory

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Theory that is the foundation of variables

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Theoretical

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Theory that is a foundation of the entire study which involves processes (arrows)

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Conceptual

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Type of infromation that is in the newspaper (social sciences) and numerical/statistics basis (clinical

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Opinion

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Type of information that discusses or explains relationship between variables

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Methods

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Types of literature

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Non-empirical/conceptual

Empirical/research

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Type of literature which uses reference materials written by authorities on the subject which embody experiences, viewpoints, and interpretations of the subject of the research study

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Non-empirical/conceptual literature

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What type of literature are books?

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Non-empirical/conceptual

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Type of literature that consists of studies and researches or theses and dissertations, published or unpublished, which have a bearing on the current research

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Empirical/research literature

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Primary source examples for empirical/research literature

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Professional research journals

Research grants index

Scholarly books

World Wide Web

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Secondary source for empirical/research literature

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● Literature review summaries ● Thesis/ dissertation reviews ● Research abstracts ● Research papers ● Research critiques

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Sources for non-empirical/conceptual literature

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● Case Reports ● Opinion Articles ● Commentaries ● Clinical Description

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Types of professional literature

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Primary and seoncdary source

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Type of professional literature which is published, and authors are providing the original report of the research they conducted

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Primary source

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Examples of primary sources

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journal articles

researh theses

Dissertations

conference abstracts

proceedings

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Type of professional literature that is unpublished, and authors summarize their work or work of others

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Secondary sources

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are books primary or secondary sources?

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Secondary

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Categories of search tools for focused literature search

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Dissertations & theses & conference proceedings

Single article

Single journal contents scanning

multiple journals

people as primary sources

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Category of search tools which has access to abstracts

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Dissertations & theses & conference proceedings

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Category of search tools which a single relevant article citation can be used in several diff wways to identify other sources of information (aka paghahanap sa sources ng isang article)

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Single article

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Category of search tools which examine book review and abstracts of relevant articles published in other journals

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Single journal contents scanning

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T/F a book review will indicate whether the reference list is comprehensive

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True

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Category of search tools which you cannot go back to unlike books; and is primarily used in qualitative studies like in interviews, focus group discussions

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People as primary sources

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Before you start: ask yourself the following questions:

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What kind of information?

Where would be a likely place to look?

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Hierarchy of evidence for articlees about therapy

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1A Systemic Review of Randomized

1B individual randomized clinical trial with narrow confidence interval

1C all-or-none study

2A Systemic Review of Cohort studies

2B INdividual cohort study

2C Outcomes research

3C Systematic review

4 Case-series study

5 Expert opinion without explicit crit

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Part of the hierarchy of evidence which deals with Clinical trials that do not have statistically significant variation in the direction or degree of results; Usually, done by 2 people (primary researcher and validator).

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Systemic Review of Randomized

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What does PICO stand for?

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Patient, population, problem

intervention or exposure

comparison

outcome

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Good research interface should provide

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● Ability to search for a specific item

● Ability to search for related items to a known item

● Ability to search in a specific field or fields

● Ability to combine search Terms using Boolean Logic

● Ability to retrieve search results in a useful way

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Three statements according to the Boolean Logic

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○ Make your OR statements, one per concept.

○ Put AND between each of the OR statements.

○ Consider any NOT statements you might want to add.

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T/F In the Boolean Logic, NOT is used very often

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False

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Beyond basic boolean, you must also do

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Field Searching

Controlled Vocabulary (Subject vs. Keyword searching)

Specialty Features (Truncation, phrase searching)

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T/F Almost all databases will provide you with some ability to search a specific field or fields.

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True

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T/F Not all databases may make all fields searchable.

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True

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T/F Each search system doesn't require a specific format.

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True

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Part of the Hierarchy of evidence which deals with a study in which some or all patients died before treatment became available, and then none die after treatment.

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All-or-none study

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Part of the hierarchy of evidence which deals with Systematic Review of Cohort Studies that do not have statistically significant variation in the direction or degrees of results.

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Systematic Review of Cohort studies

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Part of hierarchy of evidence which deals with a prospective research design used to evaluate the relationship bet tx and an outcome.

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Individual cohort study

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Part of hierarchy of evidence which deals with non-experimental research inat evaluates outcomes of care in "real world" clinical conditions.

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outcomes research

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Part of the hierarchy of evidence which deals with Systematic Review of Case-control Studies that do not have statistically significant variation in the direction or degrees of results.

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Systematic review

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Part of hierarchy of evidence which deals with cohort or Case-Control Study that aid not:

- Define comparison groups adequately; or

- Did not measure exposures and outcomes objectively or in a blinded fashion; or

- Control for confounders; or

- Have sufficient follow-up (cohort studies only)

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Case-series study

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A description of the management of several patients/clients for the same purposes as a case report

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Case series

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Part of hierarchy of evidence which deals with Expert Opinion without explicit critical appraisal, or based on physiology, bench research, or “first principles”.

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Expert Opinion without explicit crit

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biologically plausible rationales for management of pathophysiology.

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first principle

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T/F Field 'tags' OR 'labels' which may follow a period

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true

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pubmed field tag for journal name

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[ta]

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pubmed field tag for affiliation

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[ad]

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if you want to search for the singular and plural ver of a word, this the process you use

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truncation

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If you want to search for therapy, therapeutics, and therapies, you can use truncation to shorten it. How?

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therap*

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T/F If the word stem is too short in truncation, there may be too many possible variations and you might pick up unrelated terms.

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True

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This is when you want to force the database to search for a set of words in exact order.

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Phrase searching

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T/F Field tags or labels cannot be pubmat fiplaced in brackets or parentheses.

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False

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pubmat field tag for author

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[au]

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pubmed field tag for title

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[Ti]

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Pubmed field tag for textword

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[tw]

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Pubmed field tag for title and abstract

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[tiab]

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pubmed field tag for medical heading

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[mh]

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pubmed field tagt for date of publication

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[dp]

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pubmed field tag for language

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[la]

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pubmed field tag for grant number

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[gn]