Finding the Evidence Nia Wyn Roberts Bodleian Health Care Libraries.
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Session objectives
• Formulate a focused question• Turn a focused question into a search • Search TRIP & PubMed
Focused questionP: football fansI: diet or “physical activity”C: N/AO: “weight loss”
Are diet or physical activity interventions delivered through football clubs effective in promoting weight loss?
Quick search
• TRIPwww.tripdatabase.com
• Other ways of finding secondary sources:– Cochrane Library www.cochrane.org – Epistemonikos www.epistemonikos.org – NICE Evidence www.evidence.nhs.uk
• Subscription based “point of care” tools– Best Practice, DynaMed, UpToDate…
Hands-on
• Formulate a focused question– Use your own question – Record the search terms you’re using
• Run a quick search on TRIPwww.tripdatabase.com
Searching for primary studiesWhy bother?
• Too few results• Too many results• Irrelevant results• Submitting a funding proposal• Writing a guideline, assignment, report…• Conducting a systematic review
P I OFootball fan*
Football club*
Soccer fan*
Soccer club*
Diet*
“health eating”
Exercise*
“physical activity”
Weight
Bmi
“body mass index”
Quick tipsTake a common word stem and look for
spelling variations e.g.
◦diet* - will retrieve papers diet, diets, dieting, dieted…
Phrase searching
◦Use double quote marks if you want words to appear next to each other e.g.
“physical activity”
P I O
Football fan*OR
Football club*OR
Soccer fan*OR
Soccer club*
Diet*OR
“health eating”OR
Exercise*OR
“physical activity”
WeightORBmiOR
“body mass index”
Develop a search strategy
1. football OR soccer2. Diet* OR “healthy eating” OR exercise* OR
“physical activity”3. “weight loss” OR “lose weight” OR “weight
reduction” OR bmi4. 1 AND 2 AND 3
Hands on
• Run your focused search on PubMed
– Go to http://www.pubmed.gov– Click on Clinical Queries– Try out the Advanced Search– Look at the PubMed tutorials – try a MeSH search