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Question 1

Why should you use UMKC Libraries?

Answer 1

UMKC Libraries → Health Sciences Library → PubMed

Free access to manuscripts forever!

Question 2

How do you use UMKC libraries?

Answer 2

1. www.umkc.edu
2. Select “libraries”
3. Select “health science library”
4. Select PubMed
5. Select Clinical Queries
6. Insert PICO terms

Fill out category & scope & system review filters

Conduct quick simple search by entering a term in the search box
Conduct detailed search using MeSH

Question 3

How do you find the “Best Evidence”?

Answer 3

Clinical queries

Set limits (humans, language & time)

Clinical study categories

Question 4

Know the advantages of disadvantages of different databases;

Answer 4

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Question 5

What is PICO (EBDM QUESTION)?

Answer 5

What are the:

Population/Patient/Problem

Intervention

Comparison (don’t always have this)

Outcome

Ex. Will laser treatments reduce the levels of periodontal disease in US adults?

Question 6

Which terms of PICO are typically the most useful?

Answer 6

I & C are the most “ic-portant” haha…

→ search for evidence using these first

Question 7

Do not use…

Answer 7

Google… PubMed is the best one to use for searching

Question 8

What different uses does PICO have?

Answer 8

Most common questions: diagnosis, treatment, etiology/harm, and prognosis

Question 9

What are the most common type of questions?

Answer 9

• Diagnosis
• Therapy
• Prognosis
• Harm/Etiology

Question 10

What is Diagnosis and what type of study(ies) does it involve?

Answer 10

Diagnosis: how to select & interpret
diagnostic tests

Prospective, blind comparison to a gold
standard or cross-sectional

Question 11

What is Therapy and what type of study(ies) does it involve?

Answer 11

Therapy: how to select treatments that do
more good than harm and that are worth
efforts & costs of using them

Randomized controlled trial / cohort study

Question 12

What is Prognosis and what type of study(ies) does it involve?

Answer 12

Prognosis: how to estimate patient’s likely
clinical course over time based on factors
other than intervention & anticipating likely
complications of a disease

Cohort study > case control> case series

Question 13

What is Harm/Etiology and what type of study(ies) does it involve?

Answer 13

Harm/Etiology: how to identify causes for
disease (including iatrogenic forms)

Cohort> case control > case series