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Expert PubMed/Medline Searching Skills

Expert PubMed/Medline Searching Skills. Konstantina (Dina) Matsoukas, MLIS Head of Reference & Education Coordinator CUMC - Health Sciences Library hs-library@columbia.edu April 29, 2011. Acknowledgements.

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Expert PubMed/Medline Searching Skills

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  1. Expert PubMed/Medline Searching Skills Konstantina (Dina) Matsoukas, MLIS Head of Reference & Education CoordinatorCUMC - Health Sciences Libraryhs-library@columbia.edu April 29, 2011

  2. Acknowledgements • This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. NO1-LM-6-3501 with New York University. • This series of training classes was developed by Konstantina (Dina) Matsoukas, Head of Reference and Education Coordinator of the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University.

  3. IFH Training Class Series 2011 • Orientation to Health Sciences Information Resources (Feb 23@12pm) • Comprehensive Searching of the Medical Literature (Mar 3@12pm) • Smart Googling for Healthcare Professionals (Mar 10@12pm) • Community Health and Demographic Data Sources (Mar 21@12pm) • Keeping Up with the Medical Literature (Mar 29@12pm) • Overview of Public Health Information Resources (Apr 6@12pm) • Finding Evidence Based Information Resources (Apr 13@12pm) • Expert PubMed/Medline Searching Skills (Apr 29 @12pm) • Finding Patient Education Information Resources (May 3 @12pm) • Searching for Data in Statistical Information Resources (May 11 @12pm)

  4. Topics covered in this session: • Anatomy of a PubMed record • Field searching in PubMed • Over-riding PubMed’s default settings • PubMed links to other NCBI resources

  5. Anatomy of a PubMed record

  6. PubMed – http://www.pubmed.gov

  7. PubMed – in process records

  8. PubMed – in process records (no MeSH)

  9. PubMed’s Display Setting Options

  10. Display Setting - MEDLINE (for in process record) In process recordshave not yet been fully indexed –so no MeSHheadings

  11. LIMITing to MEDLINE records

  12. LIMITing to MEDLINE records

  13. PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE

  14. Display Setting - MEDLINE

  15. MEDLINE record’s fields

  16. Grant info MeSH

  17. Grant info

  18. MeSH, Substance name, Supplemental concept

  19. Field searching in PubMed

  20. Let’s try it out…. Example Scenario • You are a family physician who regularly counsels your patients on family planning – specifically about what is a healthy interval of time for them to wait before starting to try having another baby. • You generally recommend about 18 months or so to ensure the best outcomes for mother and baby. Your colleague tells you that there is a new study out of Columbia University published in the journal Pediatrics that now suggests that short time intervals between pregnancies might increase the chances of having a child born with autism. • You wish to locate the PubMed citation to that study. • How do you go about finding it quickly?

  21. PubMed – http://www.pubmed.gov

  22. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/citmatch

  23. Field searching via LIMITS

  24. Field searching via Advanced Search

  25. All fields in the MEDLINE record areavailable to be searched on.

  26. Over-riding PubMed’s default settings • Manual vs. Automatic

  27. Forcing a bound “phrase search”

  28. PubMed’s default is to AND terms

  29. Surround phrase in quotation marks

  30. Combining subheadings with AND (instead of the default OR)

  31. Add subheadings to search individually to AND

  32. Can always manuallyedit the query in this box!

  33. When you do not want MeSH exploded…

  34. Dropping Explode function with truncation

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