The distinguishing feature of this pocket-sized searching skills book, like all the Toolkit series titles, is its user-friendliness. The guiding principle is that readers do not want to become librarians, but they are faced with practical difficulties when searching for evidence, such as lack of skills, lack of time and information overload. They need to learn simple search skills, and be directed towards the right resources to find the best evidence to support their decision-making.
A user-friendly, Hands-On guide to literature searching, which is an essential skill for all involved in health care research and development, researchers, and students from all disciplines.
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"A userfriendly, HandsOn guide to literature searching, which is an essential skill for all involved in health care research and development, researchers, and students from all disciplines." ( Companies and products -- Data , 9 February 2013) "Very useful. The authors are clearly experts in searching and they fill a gap in the market: there is no comparable book on 'the searching of the evidence.' ... [ I] recommend this book to doctors who want to learn basic searching skills. As a medical information specialist I keep it in my pocket too." ( Laika's MedLibLog , March 2010)
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Table of Contents (provisional). |
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Summary of Evidence based practice - |
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3 Formulating a clinical question. |
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* Identifying a scenario - |
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* Formulating a question - |
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PICO with examples- 6 pages. |
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* Topic background information - identifying synonyms - |
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* Identifying sources of information/databases with levels of quality - |
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* Filtering search results. |
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o Sensitivity vs specificity - |
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o PubMed (with Clinical Queries) - related articles - |
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o Top ten database search tips - |
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* Citation pearl searching - |
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* Quality shortcuts to searching (National Library for Health, including Specialist Libraries, Question and Answering Service, Clinical Queries) - |
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6 Searching the World Wide Web. |
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* Hierarchy of searching the Internet - |
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* Hints, tips, benefits and harms of searching the WWW - |
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* Resources for evaluating Internet web-sites - |
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7 Storing/saving relevant papers and information. |
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* Citation manager software - |
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8 Searching for systematic reviews - including screening titles and abstracts 6 pages. |
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9 Critical appraisal (CA checklists, hierarchy of evidence, referral to the EBM toolkit - |
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Caroline De Brun , Librarian, National Knowledge Service, Oxford, UK Nicola Pearce-Smith , Information Scientist, National Library for Health, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Oxford, UK
