1 Medical Literature as a Resource for Evidence-Based Medicine. An Overview. Jarmila Potomková Palacky University Medical Library Vladimír Mihál Professor of Pediatrics & Vice-Dean Palacky University Faculty of Medicine
2 Winter Semester List of Topics 1. Medical literature as a resource for evidence based medicine. An overview. 2. Biomedical literature resources and hierarchy of evidence. 3. MEDLINE - the most important biomedical database. PubMed online training. 4. MEDLINE - sample searches. Search strategy tips, Boolean operators, working with search results. MeSH, links to fulltext articles.
3 Study Materials Vzdělávání (= training) English Programme
4 Topic 1: AGENDA 1A: Searching for „evidence“ What is evidence-based medicine? 1B: Clinical questions Background vs. Foreground questions 1C: Searching tips: Books Search engines Google (various documents) Scholar Google (journal articles) Scirus (various SCIENTIFIC documents) Databases MEDLINE (journal articles bibliographic records)
5 Clinical Question for Today A role of vaccination to prevent [recurrent] otitis media in children. Author: Prof. V. Mihál, MD, PhD. PU Medical Faculty Vice-Dean, Head of Pediatric Department
6 1C: Searching Tips Books Search engines Google (mixed documents ) Scholar Google (journal articles) Scirus (various SCIENTIFIC documents)
7 1C: Searching Tips Books Search engines Google (mixed documents ) Scholar Google (journal articles) Scirus (various SCIENTIFIC documents)
8 Google Advanced Search
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10 Self-study Assignment 1 Identify types of first 40 documents, eg. Company websites Journal articles Fulltext version Bibliographic record only Bibliographic record + abstract Database Educational material (universities, professional societies) Patents Patient information Library catalogs Business information (eg.pharmaceutical companies) Others (specify)
11 Self-study Assignment 1 Notes
12 Advanced Image Search
13 1C: Searching Tips Books Search engines Google (mixed documents ) Scholar Google (journal articles) Scirus ( various SCIENTIFIC documents)
14 Scholar Google Advanced Search
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16 References GiustiniD. How Google is changing medicine. BMJ : Tang H, Hwee Kwoon Ng J. Googling for a diagnosis--use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet based study BMJ 2006;333(7579):
17 1C: Searching Tips Books Search engines Google (mixed documents ) Scholar Google (journal articles) Scirus ( various documents)
18 Scirus Advanced Search
19 Filter Search Results Refine Search
20 Results Refined with: Acute Otitis Media
21 Document Types Journal sources (385) ScienceDirect (238) MEDLINE / PubMed (105) BioMed Central (23) Pubmed Central (15) SAGE Publications (3) Hindawi Publishing Corporation (1) less Preferred web (201) Patent Offices (122) NDLTD (44) - Australasian Digital Thesis Program Digital Archives (20) more Other web (5,935) File types HTML (5,053) PDF (1,604) Word (50) PPT