2. Advanced PubMed Searching for Nursing PhD Students Min-Lin E. Fang, MLIS Education and Information Consultant for Nursing and Social and Behavioral Sciences 415-476-3397 Fang@library.ucsf.edu

3. 2 Objectives At the end of lecture, you will be able to - Develop good search strategies and conduct efficient PubMed searches - Identify right MeSH using title word and MeSH database - Use subheadings, major concepts and limit options to refine searches - Set up filters and save searches for an automated update - Save PubMed citations for EndNote

4. 3 Development of Search Strategies Formulate the question Break the question down to various concepts Find the right MeSH/thesaurus for each concept Combine various concepts using Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) Apply limit options (language, subset, age, publication type, major heading, subheading) Run the search Modify search strategies and rerun the search

5. 4 Locating MeSH Do a title search Display citations in Citation format to locate MeSH Malnutrition [ti] AND nursing home* [ti] OR Search the MeSH database Scope Note Subheadings Major Topics Explode

6. 5 Narrow Your Search to Be More Focused Subheadings: nursing, prevention and control, therapy… Limit options: Language, age group, publication type, subset… Restrict Search to Major Topic headings only

7. 6 Boolean Operators OR(use to join synonyms) Vitamin C OR Ascorbic Acid doctors OR physicians tumor OR tumour injuries OR accidents AND (use to combine concepts) Vitamin C AND cancer doctors AND managed care color AND vision injuries AND automobiles

8. 7 Boolean AND

9. 8 Boolean OR

10. 9 Saving PubMed Citations for EndNote Select citations of your interest. Select “Clipboard” from the “Send to” menu. Click “Clipboard” to display all citations you save. Click “Display” to choose MEDLINE. Go to “Send to” menu to select “File” and save your citations in MEDLINE format with text file.

11. 10 Online Tutorials PubMed Quick Tour CINAHL Basic Searching, Advanced Searching

12. 11 Searching PubMed Using MeSH 1.Malnutrition in nursing home residents 2.End-of-life care in pediatric cancer patients 3.Alternative therapies in pain management 4.Role of nurse to patient ratios in hospital patient outcomes 5. Etiology, genetics, prevention and rehabilitation of cardiovascular diseases among elderly 5. Influence of television on children’s health behaviors 6.Health promotion of older Latino women with risk factors for breast cancer