Medline
This is the C in PICO.
What is the comparison?
This MeSH subheading is useful for searching for articles on pharmaceutical treatment of various conditions.
What is drug therapy?
This is one type of article that is placed at the top of the evidence pyramid, because it brings together evidence from lower levels.
What is meta-analyses? Or what is systematic reviews? (Both are correct.)
This PICO element could describe a disease, the age or gender of interest, or even the setting (e.g., community, long-term care).
Patient, Population or Problem (accept all/any)
This is the best way to search MEDLINE for articles on green tea. Hint: You will need to search MEDLINE to figure out the answer.
What is a keyword search for green tea?
This resource will provide you with the generic name for various drug brand names, as well as dosages and other drug information.
What is LexiComp? OR What is RxTx?
In the following clinical question, identify the outcome: In people with carpal tunnel syndrome, is surgery more effective than physical therapy in reducing hand pain?
What is reduction of hand pain?
This is one criterion you would use to evaluate a patient education web site.
What is accuracy, authority, currency, relevance, point of view/purpose? (All are correct.)
Applying this to your search will limit retrieval to only those articles in which the subject heading is a major concept.
What is Focus?
In the first session in this module, we discussed two types of clinical questions. This type of question is best answered by textbooks rather than journal articles.
What is a background question?
This combining word is used when you are searching for synonyms or alternative words/phrases in a database.
What is OR?
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What is AccessMedicine, ClinicalKey, STAT!Ref, Premium Basic Sciences, etc.?
This is a measure of how much articles from a particular journal have been cited.
What is impact factor?
In MEDLINE, this function allows you to search a broad subject heading and ALL the more specific subject headings listed underneath it.
What is Explode?
Age group, publication type, year of publication, male and human are examples of these.
What are limits?
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