Pubmed
Steps in Searching
Literature Searching
Access
Databases
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National Library of Medicine (NLM®) journal citation database

What is Medline

100
A clear, focused question
What is the first step in doing a literature search
100
Looking at the titles, abstracts and headings of a relevant article
What is a good way to find search terms
100
Main services available through TOH Library
What are literature searching and article retrieval
100

Academic version of a popular online search engine used to locate resources from academic publishers, universities and other academically reliable sources

What is Google Scholar

200
The National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.
What is MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
200

PICO (Patient / Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome)

What are key parts of a well-built clinical question

200
Searching titles and abstracts for one or more words specified by a user
What is keyword searching
200
Location where you can access electronic journals
What is the University of Ottawa library
200

Main Nursing and Allied health database

What is CINAHL

300
A user-friendly search tool in PubMed that allows clinicians to quickly and easily search for relevant clinical literature on etiology, prognosis, diagnosis and therapy of diseases and diagnostics
What is Clinical Queries
300

More than one

What is the number of databases you should search when doing a literature review

300
The problem with the following search question is: ---- All RCTs or observational studies on transitional care interventions in non-cardiac surgical populations from 1995 to 2017 with outcomes on emergency department visits within 30 days of surgery
What is "too narrow"?
300

Anesthesiology reference tool that merges a collection of medical resources with procedural videos, case reviews and other quick reference material.

What is AccessAnesthesiology

300

Database that covers the international biomedical literature while concentrating in particular on European sources. The emphasis of the database is on the pharmacological effects of drugs and chemicals

What is Embase

400
PubMed page that includes a feature to search by individual fields
What is the Advanced Search page
400

AND, OR, NOT

What are Boolean operators

400

Asteriks (*) help you do this when searching

What is truncate your search term

400

Database that only has systematic reviews

What is Cochrane

500
PubMed section that allows the user to see how PubMed interprets search terms
What is "Search Details"
500

Publication date, Language, Research design

What are methods to limit your search results

500
The problem with the following search question is this: --- Treatment of DVT/PE?
What is "too broad"
500
Zotero, Mendeley, Papers
What are citation management tools
500
Two large research databases that also include citation data
What are Web of Science and Scopus
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