Session #5 Flashcards

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must be the first disclosure containing sufficient info to enable peers to assess observations, repeat experiments, and to evaluate intellectual processess

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primary source

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2
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includes books, review articles, and indexes to the literature and usually summarize, reviews, or organize info

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secondary source

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3
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the internet is considered what?

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a “buyer beware” situation

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4
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form of quality control and it provides high quality publications but it is NOT infaliable

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peer-reviewed articles

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5
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a measure of a particular journals impact based on how often that journals articles are cited

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impact factor

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6
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what is the formula for impact factor?

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citations in year/ total articles published past 2 years

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7
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what is the best way to define a question?

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PICO

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8
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When should you use keyword searching?

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  • current topics
  • not easy to describe concepts
  • no vocab exists in database
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9
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what are the pros to keyword searching?

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  • very current projects
  • no knowledge of controlled vocab necessary
  • slang
  • broad, difficult to describe topics
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10
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what are the cons to keyword searching?

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  • not consistent
  • burden on end-user to discover synonyms
  • too many results
  • difficult to limit results
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11
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sets of words/phrases used to describe a concept

-dictionary of accepted terms for a database

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controlled vocabularies

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12
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when should you use a controlled vocabulary?

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when searching a database that uses one

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13
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what are the pros to controlled vocabularies?

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  • burden on database to discover variation in terms
  • consistency and reproducible searches
  • specific and targeted
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14
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what are the cons to controlled vocabularies?

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  • restrictive
  • burden on end-user to learn vocab
  • vocab differs (not consistent)
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15
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many search engines allow you to place a symbol at the end of a word, which tells the engine to retrieve the word stem with different endings

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truncation

a common symbol used is * although it is not universal

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16
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when you enclose your search in quotation marks

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phrasing

17
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are used to appropriately group the terms and operators to control the order of the search

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parentheses

18
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instructs the search engine to retrieve the info with a broad subject heading that are broken down into narrower subject headings

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explode

19
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a predefined search designed to target specific study methodologies (RCTs, Cohort, Systematic reviews)

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filters

20
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the degree to which the results of a study are likely to approximate to the truth

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internal validity

21
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what are the threats to internal validity?

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bias
error
confounding

22
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the extent to which the effects observed are applicable to a broader population
inference can only correctly be made to the population from which the sample was drawn

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external validity (generalizability)

we often leap into inference far beyond the targeted population