HCMG 6500Managerial Epidemiology

Library Resources and Services Search Strategies Suggested Resources

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Outline of Today’s SessionSuccessful Search Strategies

LibGuides for You!

Suggested Resources for Health and Management Research

Library Services

Managing Your Research

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Keywords are …..

KEYWORDS

Everyday language

Easy to use

Flexible terms

Less accurate

Boolean Operators

• AND = narrow

• OR = expand

• NOT = exclude

women AND hypertension

hypertension OR “high blood pressure”

Jazz NOT ragtime (rag-time)

AND is automatically used by Google and other search engines to combine terms

Building a Search Strategy

1. Research topic: Surveillance of respiratory illness in children.2. Rephrase as a question: What are the symptoms of respiratory illnesses in children that are currently puzzling medical authorities as they do surveillance activities?3. Identify keywords and phrases • “respiratory illness*” Hint: use “ “ or () around phrases• * (Truncation finds different forms of a word) illness illnesses• Symptoms• Surveillance• Children

Find Alternative Keywords

Brainstorm for alternativewords.

Keywords:

“respiratory infections”, children, characteristics,surveillance

Alternative Keywords:

“enterovirus D 68””symptoms,“monitoring”

(“enterovirus D68” OR “respiratory infection”) AND (characteristics OR symptoms) AND (surveillance OR monitoring) AND United States

Research is a process ….

Search by Subject …Types of Indexes

Subject Terms Library of Congress Subject Headings Medical & Allied Health Headings Thesaurus (Education, Psychology,

Medicine)

Target your search with more precise

“controlled vocabulary”

Advanced Search in “Discover GALILEO”

Limiter example - Geography

Searching in subject related areas

Search example in 3 Ebsco resources

Using the Subject Heading tool In CINAHL Plus

Important parts of a detailed citation record

What is MeSH?

• MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.

FINDING BOOKS

E-BooksE-ReferenceCirculating books

Searching the CSU catalog

Information About A BookTitle of Book

Place, publisher, date, (edition)

Author(s)

Location Circ Coll. Q223.T35 2010

Library of Congress subject headings

Web Sources• Includes current news and trending topics!• Some access to open source (freely available) scholarly

publications• Government publications may include:

Reports Statistical data Maps Papers Interviews Links to other government agencies

Critically Evaluate All Information!

Suggested Web Resources• CDC Data and Statistics• CDC Wonder• County Business Patterns and Zip Code Patterns (U.S. Census Bureau)• FastStats (CDC)• Global Health Observatory (GHO)• Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (H-CUP)• Health Map• Industry and Local Business (U.S. Census Bureau)• Medline Plus • Population Projections (National and State) U.S. Census Bureau

LIBGUIDES

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