Chapter 4 Flashcards
A brief overview of a publication that outlines the major topics.
abstract
An agency within the Department of Health and Human Services charged with improving the quality, safety, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans
AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
A word that functions in a search engine as a command
Boolean operator
An online index of literature about nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and other healthcare topics.
CINAHL
Details of the bibliographic information of a source, such as a book, website, or journal article.
citation
In PubMed, these are filtered sets of resources that have been grouped together into three major clinical research areas: clinical studies, systematic reviews, and medical genetics.
clinical queries
In search engines such as PubMed, it is a place where selected search results can be retained.
clipboard
In PubMed, this appear along the left column of the home search page. It include text availability (e.g., full-text, free full-text, etc.), publication date, species, article type, language, and more.
filters
The complete version of a publication
full-text
In Internet browsers and other search tools (such as PubMed) it is a record of searches that have been performed.
history
With regard to using online search tools, these are settings or options to reduce/focus the results of a search.
limiters or limits
These are used in PubMed as well as other publication indexing systems. They are a type of controlled vocabulary that are used for categorizing and grouping publications.
MeSH
A search engine capable of searching for information in multiple databases at the same time, resulting in one list of results.
meta-search engine
It is the world’s largest biomedical library. It administers PubMed, Clinicaltrials.gov, MedlinePlus, and other health information resources.
NLM (National Library of Medicine)
An acronym that stands for Patient or Problem, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome. The acronym was created to guide physicians and medical students in the development of focused clinical questions.
PICO
