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Medical Literature as a Resource for Evidence-Based Medicine. An Overview.

Medical Literature as a Resource for Evidence-Based Medicine. An Overview. Jarmila Potomková potomkov@tunw.upol.cz Palacky University Medical Library Vladimír Mihál mihalv@fnol.cz Professor of Pediatrics & Vice-Dean Palacky University Faculty of Medicine. Winter Semester List of Topics.

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Medical Literature as a Resource for Evidence-Based Medicine. An Overview.

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  1. Medical Literature as a Resource for Evidence-Based Medicine.An Overview. Jarmila Potomková potomkov@tunw.upol.cz Palacky University Medical Library Vladimír Mihál mihalv@fnol.cz Professor of Pediatrics & Vice-Dean Palacky University Faculty of Medicine

  2. Winter SemesterList of Topics • Medical literature as a resource for evidence based medicine. An overview. • Biomedical literature resources and hierarchy of evidence. • MEDLINE - the most important biomedical database. PubMed online training. • MEDLINE - sample searches. Search strategy tips, Boolean operators, working with search results. MeSH, links to fulltext articles.

  3. Study Materials • http://knihovna.upol.cz/lf • Vzdělávání (= training) • English Programme

  4. Topic 1:AGENDA • 1A: Searching for „evidence“ • What is evidence-based medicine? • 1B: Clinical questions • Background vs. Foreground questions • 1C: Searching tips: • Books • Search engines • Google www.google.com (various documents) • Scholar Google www.scholar.google.com (journal articles) • Scirus www.scirus.com (various SCIENTIFIC documents) • Databases • MEDLINE (journal articles bibliographic records)

  5. Clinical Question for Today A role of vaccination to prevent [recurrent] otitis media in children. Author: Prof. V. Mihál, MD, PhD. PU Medical Faculty Vice-Dean, Head of Pediatric Department

  6. 1C: Searching Tips BooksSearch engines Googlewww.google.com (mixed documents) Scholar Googlewww.scholar.google.com (journal articles) Sciruswww.scirus.com (various SCIENTIFIC documents)

  7. 1C: Searching Tips Books Search engines Googlewww.google.com (mixed documents) Scholar Google www.scholar.google.com (journal articles) Scirus www.scirus.com (various SCIENTIFIC documents)

  8. Google Advanced Search

  9. Self-study Assignment 1 • Identify types of first 40 documents, eg. • Company websites • Journal articles • Fulltext version • Bibliographic record only • Bibliographic record + abstract • Database • Educational material (universities, professional societies) • Patents • Patient information • Library catalogs • Business information (eg.pharmaceutical companies) • Others (specify)

  10. Self-study Assignment 1Notes

  11. Advanced Image Search http://images.google.com

  12. 1C: Searching Tips Books Search engines Googlewww.google.com (mixed documents) Scholar Google www.scholar.google.com (journal articles) Scirus www.scirus.com (various SCIENTIFIC documents)

  13. Scholar Google Advanced Search

  14. References GiustiniD. How Google is changing medicine. BMJ 2005 331: 1487-1488 Tang H, Hwee Kwoon Ng J. Googling for a diagnosis--use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet based study BMJ 2006;333(7579):1143-1145.

  15. 1C: Searching Tips Books Search engines Googlewww.google.com (mixed documents) Scholar Google www.scholar.google.com (journal articles) Scirus www.scirus.com (various documents) SCIENTIFIC

  16. Scirus Advanced Search

  17. Filter Search ResultsRefine Search

  18. Results Refined with:Acute Otitis Media

  19. Document Types Journal sources (385) ScienceDirect (238) MEDLINE / PubMed (105) BioMed Central (23) Pubmed Central (15) SAGE Publications (3) Hindawi Publishing Corporation (1)  less       Preferred web (201) Patent Offices (122) NDLTD (44) - Australasian Digital Thesis Program Digital Archives (20)     more     Other web (5,935) File types HTML (5,053) PDF (1,604) Word (50) PPT    

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