Searching for Evidence
A controlled vocabulary that helps to retrieve relevant documents by mapping all variants onto one term.
What is MeSH or Medical Subject Headings?
An Ovid database that contains only Systematic Reviews and is part of the Cochrane Library.
What is "EBM Reviews Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews" or "Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews"?
In Ovid when you want to re-do your search strategy in a different database from the one you are currently using.
What is "re-run"?
In the PICO question, "Does an oxytocin infusion dosage level influence postpartum hemorrhage?" Name the Patient Population (P).
What is "postpartum women" or "postpartum patients"?
A triangular figure showing types of studies in a hierarchy, where systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and RCTs are at the top and case reports and expert opinions at the bottom.
What is "levels of evidence pyramid"?
In information retrieval, the use of everyday words and phrases (i.e. not controlled terms) for searching.
What is "natural language searching" or "keyword" or "free text" searching?
A freely available database that anyone anywhere can use to search biomedical literature.
What is "PubMed"?
A place to save citations into folders, save search strategies or create automatic search alerts
(Hint: register for one before you start your search).
What is a "personal account"?
In the PICO question, "Will scheduled hours of quiet time decrease the incidence of ICU delirium in adult critical-care patients?" identify the Outcome.
What is "decrease the incidence of ICU delirium"?
The type of clinical study that includes a treatment arm and a comparison where patients are randomly assigned to an intervention and observed.
What is "Randomized Control Trial"?
To shorten a search term, by removing the ending of the word and add an asterisk (*) to the end of the word.
What is "truncation searching"?
Databases available at Huntington Hospital's Center for Health Evidence, that are good for searching Nursing literature.
What is "Medline, Ovid Emcare, JBI Evidence-Based Practice, Ovid Nursing Database"?
Use this link at the bottom of your search results in Ovid to remove the duplicate articles in a multi-database search.
What is "deduplicate"?
The acronym P-I-C-O stands for the important parts of a well-built clinical question.
What is Patient (population), Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome?
A free service to order an article that the library does not have full-text access to.
What is "Document Delivery"?
These search operators can be used in Advanced Search mode when combining search terms. Named after an English mathematician named George Boole.
What are "AND, OR or NOT" or "Boolean operators"?
An Ovid database that includes recently published literature and publisher feeds but cannot be searched using MeSH.
What is the "Medline-In Process" database?
When searching with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) on Ovid, this feature allows you to narrow your results to major subject headings.
What is "focus"?
Sometimes left out of a search strategy, this PICO element is used to analyze interventions side by side.
What is "C - Comparison"?
A published methodical review of the literature that is comprehensive, which appraises and summarizes the evidence according to predetermined criteria of a review question.
What is a "systematic review"?
The part of the MeSH record with the definitions for terms, previous indexing, year of entry & related words.
What is the "scope note"?
An evidence-based practice nursing database on Ovid which includes content that does not overlap with any of the other Ovid databases.
What is "JBI Evidence-Based Practice" or "Joanna Briggs"?
Saving a search and having it email you the updated results is known as what?
What is under "Email Alerts" (PubMed) or "Auto-alerts" (Ovid)? [either answer is correct]
A PICO scenario is posed as a...
What is a Clinical Question?
A place or person to help locate reliable Health Sciences information.
What is the "Center for Health Evidence" or "library" or "a librarian"?