A Librarian’s experience searching for evidence for the Western Australian Group for Evidence Informed Healthcare Practice WAGEIHP Terena Solomons Research Assistant WAGEIHP & Librarian University of Western Australia

Western Australian Group for Evidence Based Healthcare Practice http://healthsciences.curtin.edu.au/schools-and-departments/nursing-midwifery-paramedicine/research/wceihp/ WHAM – Wound Healing And Management node “Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in reducing grief experienced by family carers of people with dementia : a systematic review”

Session outline WHAM Evidence Summaries –wound care topics Systematic Review - dementia topic Text mining tools for identifying keywords and MeSH headings Databases & Grey literature sources Search Filters Documenting the search strategy process Skills and knowledge gained

Evidence Summary – Best Practice Recommendations and References with the Level of Evidence

WHAM Wound Healing And Management Evidence Summaries What is the best available evidence regarding green tea for managing wound odor? What is the efficacy of acetic acid / citric acid in relation to anti-microbial action and wound healing? What is the best available evidence in the effectiveness of tea tree oil preparations used for managing wounds? What is the best available evidence regarding banana leaf dressing / potato peel dressings for wound management? What is the best available evidence regarding the use of turmeric in wound management?

Tools to identify Keywords and MeSH Google & Google Scholar Looking at MeSH headings from key articles Citation analysis – Scopus & Web of Science – who has cited whom Scope Notes in Medline, Embase, CINAHL Text matching tools MeSH on Demand PubMed Reminer

EndNote’s 5 star rating column is used to indicate JBI Level of Evidence Research Notes field is used to record 5a, 5b, 5c etc https://joannabriggs.org/assets/docs/approach/JBI-Levels-of-evidence_2014.pdf

MeSH Subject headings were exported from EndNote to a Word table for the for the Systematic review “ “Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in reducing grief experienced by family carers of people with dementia.”

Concept 1 – PHMB Concept 2 – Wounds What is the best available evidence regarding the effectiveness of polyhexamethylen biguanide (PHMB) for managing wounds? Concept 1 – PHMB Concept 2 – Wounds Exp biguanides Exp Anti-infective agents, local Exp Antiseptics PHMB.ti,ab. OR polyhexamethylene biguanide.ti,ab. OR polihexanide.ti,ab. OR polyaminopropyl biguanide.ti,ab. Antiseptic$.ti,ab Lavasept.ti,ab OR Serasept.ti,ab OR Kerlix.ti,ab Excilon.ti,ab Telfa.ti,ab XCellAE Cellulose Wound Dressing Antimicrobial.ti,ab Exp wounds and injuries Exp wound healing Exp wound infection Exp surgical wound infection Exp leg ulcer Exp pressure ulcer Exp diabetic foot Exp foot ulcer Exp skin ulcer Wound$.ti,ab,kw (bedsore$ or bed sore$)ti,ab,kw (pressure ulcer$ or pressure sore$).ti,ab (decubitus ulcer$ or decubitus sore$).ti,ab (leg ulcer$ or foot ulcer$)ti,ab Laceration$.ti,ab Abrasion$.ti.ab

Text mining tool- PubMed ReMiner http://hgserver2.amc.nl/cgi-bin/miner/miner2.cgi Great tool for identifying key authors, MeSH headings and journals that publish on a particular topic.

PubMed ReMiner

Text mining tool - MeSH on Demand https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/MeSHonDemand Paste in text from a protocol - abstract Software text matches and identifies MeSH Terms within the text No human intervention or evaluation Provides a list of 10 citations related to the text submitted Acknowledgements to Julie Glanville.

The last paragraph of the dementia systematic review protocol has been pasted into MeSH on Demand. The program identifies MeSH terms on the right. Hovering your mouse over the MeSH term on the right column highlights the relevant words within the text.

Databases searched for Wound ES & Dementia SR Cochrane, DARE Medline, PubMed CINAHL Embase PsycINFO Web of Science Scopus Science Direct Informit health databases AMI, ApaisHealth etc Joanna Briggs EBP database AMED OVID - Allied and Complementary Medicine Global Health OVID Natural Medicines COS Conference Papers Index ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Databases accessed via Curtin University Library for wound and dementia topics

Grey Literature WHO International trials register http://www.who.int/ictrp/search/en/ Open Grey http://www.opengrey.eu/ World Wide Sciencehttps://worldwidescience.org/ Open DOAR http://www.opendoar.org/ EThOS http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do Grey literature sites accessed. WHO Clinical Trials registry provides a central database for searching many national trial registries of publicly and privately supported clinical studies around the world Open Grey provides open access to Grey literature produced in Europe including technical and research reports, doctoral dissertations and some conference papers. WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals. OpenDOAR is a directory of academic open access repositories providing access to higher degree theses.

Grey Literature Low resource countries Bioline - http://www.bioline.org.br/ LILACS Literature from Latin America & Caribbean http://lilacs.bvsalud.org/en African Journals Online https://www.ajol.info/index.php/index/search Bioline International provides open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries. These journals contain timely research on public health, international development and tropical medicine. Bioline is not a publisher, but an aggregator that provides a free platform for journals from developing countries. LILACS is a comprehensive database of scientific and technical literature of Latin America and the Caribbean that indexes journal articles, theses, books and technical reports from 1982 to now. African Journals Online – peer reviewed journals of African published scholarly journals.

Search Filters Webinar on Search Filters by Julie Glanville https://eahilcpd.wordpress.com/webinar-toolkit/search-filters-what-are-they-good-for/ CareSearch Dementia, Grief & Bereavement Filters https://www.caresearch.com.au/Caresearch/tabid/2799/Default.aspx Flinders Filtershttp://www.flinders.edu.au/clinical-change/research/flinders-filters/flinders-filters.cfm

Documenting the Search Process A word document is created to document the search strategy process. In this case the original Evidence Summary was published in 2013. I updated the search in 2015 and 2017.

The databases, date searched, number of new references found (along with initial author name) along with the name of the saved search is recorded.

Screen shot of the first part of Medline search strategy that is cut and pasted into the Word Search strategy document

Skills & knowledge gained working for WAGEIHP Honed search skills in a variety of platforms Detective skills in sourcing full text articles Use of text mining tools Up-skilled in EndNote & sharing two EndNote libraries with researchers at the same time. Google Translate for foreign language articles

Contact details Terena Solomons Research Assistant WAGEIHP (Mon & Fri) t.solomons@curtin.edu.au Librarian, University of Western Australia (Tues – Thurs) terena.solomons@uwa.edu.au