1. 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

2. Western Australian Group for Evidence Based Healthcare Practice
WHAM – Wound Healing And Management node
“Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in reducing grief experienced by family carers of people with dementia : a systematic review”

3. 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

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

6. 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?

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.”

10. 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

11. Text mining tool- PubMed ReMiner
Great tool for identifying key authors, MeSH headings and journals that publish on a particular topic.

12. PubMed ReMiner

13. Text mining tool - MeSH on Demand
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.

14. 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.

15. 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

16. Grey Literature WHO International trials register
Open Grey
World Wide Sciencehttps://worldwidescience.org/
Open DOAR
EThOS
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.

17. Grey Literature Low resource countries
Bioline -
LILACS Literature from Latin America & Caribbean
African Journals Online
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.

18. Search Filters Webinar on Search Filters by Julie Glanville
CareSearch Dementia, Grief & Bereavement Filters
Flinders Filtershttp://

19. 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 I updated the search in 2015 and 2017.

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

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

22. 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

24. Contact details Terena Solomons Research Assistant WAGEIHP (Mon & Fri)
Librarian, University of Western Australia (Tues – Thurs)