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Introduction to Epidemiology > Lecture 4 Medical Literature Search > Flashcards

Lecture 4 Medical Literature Search Flashcards

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Search Sites

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OVID/Medline
PubMed
Internet Search Engines (Google, Google Scholar)
Others

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doi

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Digital Object Identifier

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MeSH

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Medical Subject Headings

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UID/PMDI

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Unique (or PubMed) Identifier

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E-books/E-journals

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Can be accessed through links on Library’s website or through the Library catalog.

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If you need articles on specific topic, search

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PubMed or OVID

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SFX-E Journals

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Database if electronic journals the library subscribes to and many open access journals through databases and on the internew

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Board Review

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Listed at Helpful Links on the Library’s website

Offer USMLEasy as only electronic review resource,

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Access Medicine, Access Pediatrics and Access Surgeries

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McGraw Hill databases with electronic reference books, case studies, images, drug info, and surgery videos

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The Medical Letter

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Summarizes vital drug facts, focusing on elements such as mechanism of action, pharmacology, clinical studies, adverse effects, and is updated biweekly.

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Human Anatomy

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Interactive cadaver dissection tutorial. supplement to gross lab

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PubMed

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The National Library of Medicine’s database that provides access to over 18 million medical citations

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OVID

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Searches 1200+ journals, MEDLINE and the Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (AACP Journal Club, Cochrane, DARE, CCTR).

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Clinical Key

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Elsevier’s Clinical Insight Engine

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Natural Standard

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An international research collaboration that compiles data on complementary and alternative therapies.

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UpToDate

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A clinical information resource

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Basic Search Techniques

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Enter in search box. Can do Advanced link

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Keyword Searching

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Enter one or more keywords.

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Automatic term mapping

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PubMed automatically combines significant terms together. Matches your search terms with MeSH terms to improve your search results.

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MeSH example of heart attack search

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A search for heart attack retrieves articles containing heart attack in title or abstract. Also retrieves articles containing myocardial infarction (the medical term for heart attack) in the title, abstract or MeSH terms.

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Author Searching

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Enter author’s last name followed by initials without punctuation. If only last name, add author search field tag [au]

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Journal Title Searching

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  • Full journal title
  • use MEDLINE title abbreviation in search box
  • Single word journal titles use the Journal Title [ta] search field tag
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Truncation

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Use an asterisk * to replace zero to many characters at the end of a word
Ex. Bacter* = bacteria, bacterium, bacteriophage, etc.

Truncation turns off automatic term mapping so not generally recommended

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Combining search terms

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AND, OR or NOT to combine terms or phrases. Use parentheses to specify order in which PubMed processes your search terms

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Related Citations

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Use this link to retrieve closely related citations, based on shared MeSH terms

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Filters

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Remain in effect until you uncheck or clear them. Filters other than language or date will exude records in process

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Advanced Search

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Can view and combine searches from the previous 8 hours in your search history.

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Summary Display

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Basic citation information, related citations and PMID

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Single Citation Matcher

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To find a specific citation, on main page go to PubMed Tools > Single Citation Matcher

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MeSH terms will exclude

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‘records in progress’, as they haven’t not yet been indexed with MeSH

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Explode Feature

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Searching on MeSH terms automatically includes all terms that are logical subsets of that term
Can turn this off with [mh:noexp]

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