Searching for evidence
The hierarchical 'branch-like' structure in Medline presents a controlled thesaurus and breaks it into specific topics. What is this branch-like structure called?
What are the MeSH tree structures?
This "Library" is comprised of six high-quality databases that can be used to find literature syntheses as well as other help in doing systematic research.
What is the Cochrane Library?
The use of everyday words and phrases (i.e., NOT controlled terms) in searching is called what in information retrieval?
What is 'natural language searching' and/or keyword or 'freetext' searching?
Founder of Evidence-based Nursing Practice
Who is Florence Nightingale
This pyramid (called?) has RCTs & systematic reviews at the top followed by lower levels of evidence such as cohort & case controlled studies...
What is the hierarchy or 'pyramid' of evidence?
The part of a MeSH record with definitions for terms & entry dates, entry terms & synonyms
What is the scope note?
The type of clinical study includes a treatment arm and a comparison where patients are randomly assigned to an intervention and observed
What is a randomized controlled trial?
These symbols * $ : or ? can be used to perform what types of searching in OvidSP and other databases?
What are truncation searching or 'wildcard' searching...?
Premier EBP database for nurses
What is CINAHL
This database is a drive decision-making with a clinical search engine that gives you quick access to better evidence.
What is Clinical Key
In MEDLINE, this is where you can search using the Haynes filters.
What are the clinical queries?
To locate literature that is specific to First Nations, you cannot rely on MeSH alone but must search for ....what in MEDLINE?
What are searching for specific First Nations, Aboriginal, Metis or Inuit names? Reserves? Language?
The models and process of EBP in nursing are?
What are IOWA, STAR, Hopkins and Rosswurm & Larrabee
This popular database requires a subscription and viewed by health librarians as overpriced ...clinicians in internal medicine often ask for it
What is UpToDate?
These search operators are used in all searches with two sets. They are named after an English mathematician named Boole.
What are Boolean operators (see George Boole)?
This Canadian university is seen as the birthplace of evidence-based medicine due to the work of Gordon Guyatt and David Sackett, and others
What is McMaster University?
This database is generally consulted when searching for very specific drug information.
What is EMBASE?
EBP is essential to nursing practice because of these two reasons
What is high quality patient care and magnet recognition
The metasearch tool was created to search across several sources of evidence all at once
What is the TRIP Database?
Constructing an effective combination of search terms involves breaking down questions into ‘concepts’ & keywords. P-I-C-O helps to structure a search & stands for.... what?
What is Patient (population), Intervention, Comparison and Outcome?
Name two popular point of care (POC) tools.
What is DynaMed, Clinical Key, UpToDate, ....others?
This is the name for qualifiers in MEDLINE that increase precision of indexing. All 83 'float' among 27,000+ MeSH!
What are the MeSH subheadings (or qualifiers)?
PICOT stands for
Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, Type of study
These reviews of the literature aim for high recall approaching 99% ....and require reproducible searches & detailed documentation
What are systematic reviews?