Transcript Document 7805460

Psychiatric Assessment Service Centre
Library Instruction Session
November 1, 2007
Session Presenter: Marcus Vaska
Research Goals
• Select and refine topic
• Develop an effective search strategy
• Choose or select an appropriate database, ejournal, online reference source, etc.
• Cite your sources and use an approved style
guide
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Session Outline
• Health Information Network Calgary
– Brief introduction
– Register for a library account
• Literature Search Process
– PICO
– WISPR
• Research Databases (Point of Care)
– UpToDate
– EBM Reviews (ACP Journal Club)
– Natural Standard
• Literature Searching Techniques
– Summary of literature review
– OVID databases (Medline, PsycINFO)
• E-Journals
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Health Information Network
http://hinc.ucalgary.ca
• Collaboration between the University of Calgary
Library and the Calgary Health Region
• Partnership formed in July 2005, with the Tom
Baker Cancer Centre joining the alliance in March
2007
• Mission: “to provide access to library collections
and services and training to help use these
resources effectively.”
Adapted from Taryn J. Lenders
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Health Information Network
Knowledge Centres
• Health Sciences Library (University of Calgary)
– Phone: 220-6855/220-6857, e-mail: [email protected]
• Alberta Children’s Hospital
– Phone: 955-7077, e-mail: [email protected]
• Peter Lougheed Centre
– Phone: 943-4737, e-mail: [email protected]
• Rockyview General Hospital
– Phone: 943-3373, e-mail: [email protected]
• Tom Baker Cancer Centre
– Phone: 521-3765, e-mail: [email protected]
• Women’s Health Centre
– Phone: 944-2267, e-mail: [email protected]
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Health Information Network
Services
• Teaching and information service
(evidence-based practice)
• Literature searches
• Interlibrary Loan (obtain books and articles
from various institutions worldwide)
• Family resource centre (information
assistance for patients and their families)
• Outreach programs
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Health Information Network
Registering for a Library Account
• From the main HIN home page, click on
Register for a Library Account
• If you do not yet have a library account,
please fill out the Health Information
Network Borrower Registration form.
• Click Submit
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Before the Search Begins
• Organize your search so that you know what you
are searching for before beginning your trek.
• These searching tools can help you become better
organized:
– PICO
– WISPR
BEGIN WITH RESEARCH DATABASES!
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Literature Search Process
http://webapps2.ucalgary.ca/~commons/servlet/wispr/app?ser
vice=page/GENERIC-Home
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Refining a Search
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Boolean Operators
– AND (narrows search, retrieving records containing all of the terms)
– OR (broadens search, retrieving records containing any of the terms)
– NOT (excludes terms from a search, retrieving records that do not contain the term
following it.)
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Truncation/Wildcard
– * system* = returns records on system, systems, systematic
– ? wom?n = returns records on both woman and women (singular and plural forms)
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Nesting
– Parenthesis, () keep related terms together
If searching for an exact phrase, enclose phrase in quotation marks, “”
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User Authentication
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UpToDate
• Dementia, treatment and therapy
• Keywords: dementia, treatment, therapy
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UpToDate
• Evidence-based, synthesized medical information
• Updated every 4 months (latest release: version
15.3-October 2007)
• Includes topic reviews, differential diagnoses, new
findings, etc., all written by physician experts
• As a web-based product, information can be
located and retrieved within minutes
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ACP Journal Club
• Dementia, therapeutic issues
• Keywords: dementia, therapeutic
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A Brief Note on SFX
• Provides a link between several databases and
full-text articles (note that NLM is NOT linked
to SFX)
• Not only does SFX automatically search the
library catalogue for electronic holdings, it also
notifies the user when material is not available
online
• For more information, please consult
http://library.ucalgary.ca/services/finditsfxfulltextservice/whatisfinditsfx.php
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ACP Journal Club
Saving a Search
• Scroll to the Results Manager box at the bottom of
the results retrieved screen
• Choice to print, e-mail, or save records
• To save a record:
– Click on the save button (the one with the computer
disk)
– In the following screen select Windows Style Linefeeds,
make sure the Include Search Strategy box is checked,
and click Continue.
– The results will be saved as a text (txt) file.
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Natural Standard
(complementary and alternative therapies)
• Sample search topic: treatment and therapy
for patients with dementia
• Keywords, dementia, therapy (therapeutic),
treatment
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Purpose of Conducting a
Literature Review
• Determine existing knowledge (what literature has
been written on a topic)
• Identify gaps in existing knowledge
• Identify research designs and methodologies
• Identify other researchers in the areas of interest
• Provide context for research (build on and add
meaning to existing literature)
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Literature vs. Systematic Review
• Literature Review
– Account of what has
already been published on a
topic
– Describe, summarize,
evaluate, and clarify
literature
– Is NOT merely a summary
of existing literature
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• Systematic Review
– Brings together findings
from range of research
interventions
– Aim is to identify as many
relevant studies as possible
around a topic
– Research process is
systematic to minimize bias
Medline
PsycINFO
• Evaluation of Mental Health Services
• Keywords: “mental health services”,
evaluation
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Medline and PsycINFO
Saving a Search
• Scroll to the Results Manager box at the bottom of the
results retrieved screen
• Choice to print, e-mail, or save records
• As an OVID product, saving in PsycINFO and EBM
Reviews is identical to saving in Medline
• To save a record:
– Click on the save button (the one with the computer disk)
– In the following screen select Windows Style Linefeeds, make sure
the Include Search Strategy box is checked, and click Continue.
– The results will be saved as a text (txt) file.
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Database Helplines
• UpToDate:
http://www.uptodate.com/subscribers/user_manual
/index.asp
• Natural Standard Interactive Demo:
http://www.naturalstandard.com.hinc.lib.ucalgary.
ca
• General help for all databases with the OVID
Provider (ACP Journal Club, Medline,
PsycINFO):
http://www.ovid.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/site/
docs/owg_uman.pdf
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Peer-Reviewed Journals
• Scholarly periodical; each article submitted for publication
is judged, independently, by a panel of experts
• Characteristics of a peer-reviewed journal:
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Formal
Cited sources (footnotes and/or a bibliography)
Authored by scholars and researchers
Purpose of article is to publish results of research
Publisher is a prominent organization or research institution
Please consult http://www.library.uiuc.edu/alx/peer.htm for more
information
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E-Journals
• E-Journals
– Accessed from the Health Information
Network home page (http://hinc.ucalgary.ca) by
clicking on the E-Journals tab.
– E-Journals are all listed alphabetically
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The End
• This concludes today’s session. If you have
any further questions, please do not hesitate
to contact me. Thank you!
– Marcus Vaska
• E-mail: [email protected]
• Phone: 220-5319
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