Advanced Literature Searching for Second-Year PT Students

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Advanced Literature Searchingfor Second-Year PT
Students

• Min-Lin E Fang, MLIS
• Education and Information Consultant for Nursing
  and Social and Behavioral Sciences
• 415-476-3397
• Fang_at_library.ucsf.edu

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Objectives

• By the end of this class you will be able to
• Locate an overview of a medical condition using
  UptoDate
• Perform a PubMed search using Medical Subject
  Headings
• Use limit options and subheadings to refine
  searches
• Set up an automated PubMed Updates
• Save search strategies
• Set up PubMed filters to efficiently locate
  meta-analysis, RCTs and systematic reviews
• Perform a CINAHL search using CINAHL thesaurus

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PubMed_at_UCSF

• PubMed_at_UCSF
• http//www.library.ucsf.edu/db/pubmed/
• By National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Approximately 15 million references to the
• published journal literature
• Over 5,000 journal titles
• 1950 present
• Incorporates all or part of MEDLINE, HealthSTAR,
  AIDSLINE, CANCERLIT, SPACELINE, BIOETHICSLINE,
  and HISTLINE

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PubMed _at_UCSF

• Special URL
• http//www.library.ucsf.edu/db/pubmed/
• UC-eLinks
• Links to UCSF full text journals
• Links to UCSF Library Catalog to check whether
  UCSF owns a journal and get call no
• Links to Melvyl Catalog to check which other UC
  campuses own a journal
• Request articles not owned by UCSF from other UC
  campuses and beyond
• Copy and Paste citations
• Help UC-eLinks QuickGuide

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UC-eLinks
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Databases- PT
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Development of Search Strategies

• Formulate the question
• Break the question down to various concepts
• Find the right MeSH/thesaurus for each concept
• Combine various concepts using Boolean operators
  (AND, OR, NOT)
• Apply limit options (language, subset, age,
  publication type, major heading, subheading)
• Run the search
• Modify search strategies and rerun the search

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Why Use Index Terms (MeSH)?

• MeSH headings are an efficient way to find
  information on concepts or topics where authors
  use different language to discuss the same ideas.
  
• Using MeSH improves precision and accuracy of
  subject searching.
• Searching for words in the keyword indexes may
  not retrieve relevant articles.
• Example physical therapy
• Storytelling as therapy implications for
  medicine.
• Abstract Storytelling is an art developed
  during the beginning of human history, probably
  to teach the wisdom of generations past,
  including basic mental and physical health
  principles

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Locating MeSH - 1

• Do a Title word search.
• e.g.
• - Treat ti AND repetitive stress injur
  ti
• - Change display format to Citation to see
• assigned MeSH for the concept.

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Locating MeSH - 2

• Search the MeSH database
• Scope Note
• Subheadings
• Major Topics
• Explode

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Boolean Operators

• OR (use to join synonyms)
• Vitamin C OR Ascorbic Acid
• doctors OR physicians
• tumor OR tumour
• injuries OR accidents
• AND (use to combine concepts)
• Vitamin C AND cancer
• doctors AND managed care
• color AND vision
• injuries AND automobiles

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Boolean AND

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Boolean OR

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Tips on PubMed Searching

• Search field tags are available ti
• Forced phrase searching in quotes
• Explode is automatic
• Use truncation () to broaden your search
• (e.g. child gt child, children, childbearing)
• Boolean operators processed left to right
• To find in-process citations Use keyword search
  and limit your search to last one year.
• Keyword search looking for terms in the title,
  MeSH and an abstract.

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PubMed My NCBI

• Save search strategies
• Provide automatic email updates
• Set up filters for specific research papers, e.g.
  systematic reviews, meta-analysis
• Highlight PubMed search words in your retrieval

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My NCBI registration set-up

• Free registration
• Setting up filters for RCT and meta analysis
• Select Filters in the far left menu, and then
  select PubMed.
• Select Search and look up randomized
  controlled trial. Select Randomized Controlled
  Trial under the matching filters list and then
  check the Add box to automatically add RCT as
  one of your filters.
• Go back to Search and repeat this with meta
  analysis.
• User preferences

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CINAHL via EBSCO

• Covers nursing and allied health
• 55 overlap with MEDLINE
• Includes articles, books, book chapters,
  conference proceedings, AV, software,
  dissertations
• CINAHL Plus (1937-)
• CINAHL Headings (Major or Minor Subjects)

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UptoDate

• Opinion-based topic reviews prepared by
  physicians for physicians
• Helps you find current options for diagnosis,
  management, therapy, screening and prevention
  strategies
• Restricted access Only computers on the
  Parnassus and Mission Bay Campuses and all
  UCSF-owned facilities (e.g. Mt. Zion library) may
  access this resource.

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Citation Management

• Allows you to create and organize citations for
  books, articles, websites, and many other types
  of documents.
• Works with word processing software (e.g.,
  Microsoft Word) to insert correctly formatted
  footnotes or citations into a paper and create
  the bibliography.
• EndNote vs RefWorks
• EndNote Purchase at UCSF Tech Store or
  endnote.com site
• RefWorks
• Free Web-based service for UCSF students and
  personnel
• Create your individual account
• Sign up for a class

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Exercises

• Studies on the efficacy of using braces to treat
  repetitive stress injuries
• Impact of kyphosis for older women on quality of
  life
• Risk factors for recurrent low back pain in young
  adults
• Wrist Splints (CINAHL)

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Help

• Online Tutorials
• http//www.library.ucsf.edu/edtech/tutorial/
• PubMed Quick Tours
• CINAHL Basic Searching, Advanced Searching
• Personal Consultation