Searching for Evidence
In information retrieval, the use of everyday words and phrases (i.e. not subject headings) for searching.
What is "natural language searching" or "keyword" or "free text" searching?
An Ovid database that contains only content for evidence based nursing practice and is created by the Joanna Briggs Institute.
What is "JBI EBP database" or "Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence Based Practice database"?
In Ovid: When you want to run your search strategy in a different database from the one you are currently using, what link do you click on?
What is "Change"?
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"?
Shortening a search term, by removing the ending of the word and add an asterisk (*) to the end of the word, in order to search for all endings of the term.
What is "truncation"?
A freely available interface 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"?
A publication type that methodically reviews the literature, according to a carefully defined protocol, in order to summarize carefully designed healthcare studies (controlled trials) and provide a high level of evidence on the effectiveness of a specific healthcare intervention.
What is "Systematic Review"?
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"?
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 (or book) that the Center for Health Evidence does not have full-text access to.
What is "Document Delivery"?
What Boolean operator will broaden your search?
What is "OR"?
An Ovid database that contains the nursing subset of Medline plus Ovid nursing journals.
What is "Ovid Nursing Database"?
What Boolean operator will narrow your search?
What is "AND"?
Sometimes left out of a search strategy, this PICO element is used to analyze interventions side by side.
What is "C - Comparison"?
A systematic and comprehensive review of the literature that includes pooled numerical data to increase the statistical power of the effects of the treatment.
What is a "meta-analysis"?
A controlled vocabulary that helps to retrieve relevant documents by mapping all variants onto one term (hint: Sometimes shortened to its aconymn).
What is "MeSH" or "Medical Subject Headings"?
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 strategy and having it email you the updated results periodically is known as what?
What is under "Email Alerts" (PubMed) or "Auto-alerts" (Ovid)? [either answer is correct]
Creating a PICO question prior to searching can help you with...
What is "focusing your search" or "search strategy" or "thinking of alternative keywords" or "retrieving more relevant articles"? [Any or all are correct]
A place or person that one can go to for help with searching and locating authoritative, evidence-based health information.
What is the "Center for Health Evidence" or "library" or "a librarian"?