Searching Skills
The Evidence Pyramid
Databases
Sunny Hill Specific
100
Patient/Population Intervention Comparison Outcome
What is the PICO format of creating a searchable question?
100
This diagram describes a hierarchy of filtered and critically appraised information resources.
What is the Evidence Pyramid?
100
This metasearch tool searches across the evidence pyramid and uses colour coding to easily identify level of evidence.
What is the Trip Database?
100
Under the Links bar on the Evidence Centre tab on Sunny Hill TeamSite.
Where do you find the link to Rehabilitation Reference Center?
200
This is where you go to search in PubMed if you want to retrieve systematic reviews.
What is Clinical Queries?
200
According to the hierarchy of evidence, this is where you should start your search.
What is the top of the Pyramid?
200
These are the two interfaces that search MEDLINE.
What are PubMed and Ovid MEDLINE?
200
On the e-HLbc page on POD.
Where do you find the links to CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Evidence Based Medicine Reviews?
300
You keep getting unwanted subject heading suggestions while searching CINAHL.
What is forgetting to uncheck the "Suggest Subject Headings" checkbox?
300
McMaster University's Rehab+ is a current awareness service that provides critical appraisal of studies rated for quality and clinical relevance. Therefore, it lives on this level of the Evidence Pyramid.
What is the Synopses of Single Studies level?
300
Allied Health evidence searches these four evidence-based databases at once.
What are OTSeeker, PEDro, PsycBITE and SpeechBITE.
300
Sunny Hill is the only agency at PHSA that has access to this specialized rehabilitation database.
What is Rehabilitation Reference Center?
400
Named after an English mathematician, these operators are used in all searches to combine concepts.
What are Boolean operators (AND/OR)?
400
This database "indexes papers, not journals."
What is Google Scholar?
400
All staff is invited to this meeting for regular updates of relevance to Sunny Hill.
What is TCOB?
500
These make up the 5 requirements for completing a 'good search'.
What are: 1) creating an answerable question; 2) using keywords & subject headings; 3) using Boolean operators; 4) searching a variety of reliable sources; and 5) documenting your search.
500
The Cochrane Library is named for this Professor.
Who is Professor Archibald Leman Cochrane?
500
Examples are MeSH and the CINAHL Thesaurus.
What are subject headings (or controlled vocabulary).
500
The braille printer is stored in this room.
What is SHERC?
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