1. 1 Medical Literature as a Resource for Evidence-Based Medicine. An Overview. Jarmila Potomková potomkov@tunw.upol.cz Palacky University Medical Library Vladimír Mihál mihalv@fnol.cz Professor of Pediatrics & Vice-Dean Palacky University Faculty of Medicine

2. 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. 3 Study Materials  http://knihovna.upol.cz/lf http://knihovna.upol.cz/lf Vzdělávání (= training)  English Programme

4. 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 www.google.com (various documents)www.google.com  Scholar Google www.scholar.google.com (journal articles)www.scholar.google.com  Scirus www.scirus.com (various SCIENTIFIC documents)www.scirus.com Databases  MEDLINE (journal articles bibliographic records)

5. 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. 6 1C: Searching Tips Books Search engines Google www.google.com (mixed documents ) www.google.com Scholar Google www.scholar.google.comwww.scholar.google.com (journal articles) Scirus www.scirus.com (various SCIENTIFIC documents)www.scirus.com

7. 7 1C: Searching Tips Books Search engines Google www.google.com (mixed documents ) www.google.com Scholar Google www.scholar.google.com (journal articles)www.scholar.google.com Scirus www.scirus.com (various SCIENTIFIC documents)www.scirus.com

8. 8 Google Advanced Search

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10. 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. 11 Self-study Assignment 1 Notes

12. 12 Advanced Image Search http://images.google.com http://images.google.com

13. 13 1C: Searching Tips Books Search engines Google www.google.com (mixed documents ) www.google.com Scholar Google www.scholar.google.comwww.scholar.google.com (journal articles) Scirus www.scirus.com ( various SCIENTIFIC documents)www.scirus.com

14. 14 Scholar Google Advanced Search

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16. 16 References GiustiniD. How Google is changing medicine. BMJ 2005 331: 1487-1488 Tang H, Hwee Kwoon Ng J. Googling for a diagnosis--use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet based study BMJ 2006;333(7579):1143-1145.

17. 17 1C: Searching Tips Books Search engines Google www.google.com (mixed documents ) www.google.com Scholar Google www.scholar.google.comwww.scholar.google.com (journal articles) Scirus www.scirus.comwww.scirus.com ( various documents)

18. 18 Scirus Advanced Search

19. 19 Filter Search Results Refine Search

20. 20 Results Refined with: Acute Otitis Media

21. 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