Gathering Evidence
Search Strategies
Databases
Specialized Search Functions
100
Who is an important and knowledgeable person to include in your research to help guide you in answering your clinical question?
What is a healthcare librarian?
100
What are the two boolean operators?
What is And, Or
100
Full-text databases that contain whole articles or books, including the text, charts, graphs and other illustrations.
What is point-of-care resources
100
Allow the researcher to find evidence as quickly as possible.
What are specialized search functions?
200
A project or paper or study that is reviewed by a person(s) who is a peer to the author and has expertise in the subject?
What is peer-reviewed?
200
Name 2 of the 3 different strategies for searching a subject?
What is keywords, subject headings, title?
200
One of the world's largest searchable databases covering medicine, health, and the biomedical sciences.
What is MEDLINE?
200
CINAHL has these allow you to narrow your results to articles from EBP journals, about EBP, research articles and commentaries on research studies.
What are limiters?
300
What is unpublished evidence that has not been included in databases that clinicians routinely search?
What is grey literature?
300
Investigator-identified characteristics that are possessed by individuals that would exclude them from participating in a study?
What is exclusion criteria?
300
A free public resource for international evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
What is National Guideline Clearinghouse?
300
The database that has a category called "Special Queries", which are filters for busy clinicians to quickly find specific clinical research areas they are interested in without refining their own search strategy further.
What is PubMed
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