Week 1 Introduction and Databases Flashcards
what are the 3 parts of EBD
-best evidence
- clinical judgement
- patient values/ circumstances
what is confirmation bias
people tend to believe what they hear from news or freinds without looking further
what is the order of the evidence pyramid from top to bottom
-systematic reviews and meta analysis
- randomized controlled double blind studies
- cohort studies
- case control studies
- case series
-case reports
-ideas, editorials, opinions
- animal research
- in vitro (test tube) research
what is pubmed
articles not yet published in medline
what is medline
a database containing health subjects
what is MeSH terms
National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings
what database uses MeSH terms
PubMed and Medline
where should you go to from the homepage of PubMed
clinical Queries
what does clinical queries in pubmed sort into
clinical study categories, systematic reviews and medical genetics
what does clinical queries allow quick searches for
etiology, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, clinical prediction guidelines
what does AND do in boolean operators
shows articles with both terms listed
-fewer articles
what does OR do in boolean operators
either term, or both, will be returned in the search
- widens search
what does NOT do in boolean operators
the first term is search and each term after NOT is subtracted from the results
- narrows search
what is evidence based dentistry
why should you access PubMed through UMKC library webpage
it allows free access
