Expert PubMed/Medline Searching Skills Konstantina (Dina) Matsoukas, MLIS Head of Reference & Education Coordinator CUMC - Health Sciences Library April 29, 2011
Page 2 Acknowledgements This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. NO1-LM with New York University. This series of training classes was developed by Konstantina (Dina) Matsoukas, Head of Reference and Education Coordinator of the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University.
Page 3 IFH Training Class Series 2011 Orientation to Health Sciences Information Resources (Feb Comprehensive Searching of the Medical Literature (Mar Smart Googling for Healthcare Professionals (Mar Community Health and Demographic Data Sources (Mar Keeping Up with the Medical Literature (Mar Overview of Public Health Information Resources (Apr Finding Evidence Based Information Resources (Apr Expert PubMed/Medline Searching Skills (Apr Finding Patient Education Information Resources (May Searching for Data in Statistical Information Resources (May
Page 4 Topics covered in this session: 1.Anatomy of a PubMed record 2.Field searching in PubMed 3.Over-riding PubMed’s default settings 4.PubMed links to other NCBI resources
Page 5 Anatomy of a PubMed record
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Page 7 PubMed – in process records
Page 8 PubMed – in process records (no MeSH)
Page 9 PubMed’s Display Setting Options
Page 10 Display Setting - MEDLINE (for in process record) In process records have not yet been fully indexed – so no MeSH headings
Page 11 LIMITing to MEDLINE records
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Page 21 MeSH, Substance name, Supplemental concept
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Page 26 You are a family physician who regularly counsels your patients on family planning – specifically about what is a healthy interval of time for them to wait before starting to try having another baby. You generally recommend about 18 months or so to ensure the best outcomes for mother and baby. Your colleague tells you that there is a new study out of Columbia University published in the journal Pediatrics that now suggests that short time intervals between pregnancies might increase the chances of having a child born with autism. You wish to locate the PubMed citation to that study. How do you go about finding it quickly? Let’s try it out….Example Scenario
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Page 31 Field searching via LIMITS
Page 32 Field searching via Advanced Search
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Page 36 All fields in the MEDLINE record are available to be searched on.
Page 37 Over-riding PubMed’s default settings Manual vs. Automatic
Page 38 Forcing a bound “phrase search”
Page 39 PubMed’s default is to AND terms
Page 40 Surround phrase in quotation marks
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Page 42 Combining subheadings with AND (instead of the default OR)
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Page 44 Add subheadings to search individually to AND
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Page 47 Can always manually edit the query in this box!
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Page 49 When you do not want MeSH exploded…
Page 50 Dropping Explode function with truncation
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Page 55 PubMed links to other NCBI resources The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information. PubMed provides access and links to the integrated molecular biology and chemistry databases maintained by NCBI.
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Page 57 Let’s try it out….Example Scenario You have the opportunity to attend the lecture where research will be discussed that may someday revolutionize the way heart disease is treated: Speaker: Eric Olson, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair Annie and Willie Nelson Professor Pogue Distinguished Chair in Research on Cardiac Birth Defects University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Lecture title: "MicroRNA Control of Heart Disease: From New Biology toward New Therapeutics"
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Page 70 Gene - Gene integrates/curates info from various sources – useful for learning about genes and their associated disorders and phenotypes
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Page 74 Questions? Konstantina (Dina) Matsoukas, MLIS Head of Reference & Education Coordinator CUMC - Health Sciences Library tel Reference Desk:
Page 75 Further Reading PubMed Tutorial NCBI Tutorials