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Raritan Bay Medical CenterResearch & Education CommitteeMarch 16, 2010Yvonne Wesley RN PhD FAANwww.ywesleyconsulting.com
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:
Identify at least 3 databases containing literature to support EBP
Critique search strategies to find level one evidence
Demonstrate search results that support nursing practice
POPULAR SCHOLARLY PROFESSIONALPurpose To inform and entertain the
general readerTo communicate research and scholarly ideas
To apply information; to provide professional support
Audience General public Other scholars, students Practitioners in the field, professionals
Coverage Broad variety of public interest topics, cross disciplinary
Very narrow and specific subjects
Information relevant to field and members of a group
Publisher Commercial Professional associations; academic institutions; and many commercial publishers
Professional, occupational, or trade group
Writers Employees of the publication, freelancers (including journalists and scholars)
Scholars, researchers, experts, usually listed with their institutional affiliation
Members of the profession, journalists, researchers, scholars
Characteristics
•Little technical language or jargon•Few or no cited references•Absence of bibliographies•General summaries of background information•Contain numerous advertisements•Articles are usually brief; between 1-7 pages
•Little or no background information given•Technical language and discipline- specific jargon•PEER REVIEW, editorial board•Bibliographies included•Procedures and materials often described in detail•Articles are longer, often over 5 pages
•Application of new technology•Employment issues•Practitioners viewpoint•Technical language used•Interpretation of research trends and issues•Articles are usually brief; between 1-7 pages•Contain advertisements
Frequency Frequent, on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis
Less frequent, on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis
Frequent, on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis
Examples Time, US News and World Report, Modern Healthcare
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Institute of Transportation Engineers Journal
Revised by Jackie Mardikian and Lisa Vecchioli, Oct 2000
Online search engines. InfoSeek, AltaVista, Yahoo, Goggle A9,
[www.A9.com] AOL, Ask,
[www.ask.com] Lycos, and MSN
National Library of Medicine’s
PubMed
PubMed home
Studies in medicine, nursing
dentistry, psychiatry, veterinary and
allied health
Individual and Institutional
subscriptions: free and at a cost
depending on vendor and desired
search options
Virtual Academic Library Environment of New Jersey Consortium http://www.valenj.org
New Jersey Knowledge Initiative http://www.njki.org/
New Jersey State Library http://www.njstatelib.org/
Ovid
Professionals, researchers, students, and information managers in the scientific and healthcare communities rely on Ovid for the information they need to explore a new theory, fuel a new discovery, inform ongoing research, and improve patient care.
Products and Services: catalog of world-class book, journal, and database resources, innovative information search and discovery tools, customized services.
Silver Platter The SilverPlatter WebSPIRS Internet
Service was retired on June 30, 2009. Access to your databases previously on SilverPlatter can now be found on our new platform OvidSP, available at http://ovidsp.ovid.com.
Web of Knowledge is today's premier research platform, helping you quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. You get integrated access to high quality
literature through a unified platform that links a wide variety of content and search terms together, creating one common vocabulary and one seamless search.
Thomson Reuters
CINAHL Cumulative Index of Nursing & Allied
Health Literature The world’s most comprehensive source of
nursing & allied health journals, Full text for more than 580 journals
indexed in CINAHL. Of those, 280 are not found with full text Coverage dating back to 1981
Medline The world’s most comprehensive source of
life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information.
Contains nearly 11 million records from more than 7,300 different publications dating from 1965-present.
MEDLINE is updated weekly.
HealthSTAR Health Services Technology, Administration, and
Research The National Library of Medicine’s online webbase
within the following environments: (1) PubMed (http://PubMed.gov ) journal citations added
weekly (2) LocatorPlus (http://locatorplus.gov) books, book
chapters, technical reports and conference papers are added regularly
(3) AcademyHealth (formerly the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy) meeting abstracts
HaPI Health and Psychosocial Instruments Features material on unpublished information-
gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as:
questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques.
Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation.
PsycInfo Developed by The American Psychological
Association Citations and summaries of peer-reviewed journal
articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports,
Covers the field of psychology medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
Spanning 1806 to present, Over 80,000 records updated weekly.
The Cochrane Library evidence to inform healthcare decision-
making includes reliable evidence from systematic
reviews, & clinical trials Cochrane
gold standard in evidence-based health care.
The Joanna Briggs Institute A research institute based in Australia. Health
researchers and clinicians around the world collaborate with the Institute as collaborating centres, synthesis and utilisation groups and as members of and subscribers to the Institute’s publications and resources
Joanna Briggs Systematic Reviews fully refereed library that publishes systematic
reviews of literature. http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/pubs/systematic_reviews.php
Are tympanic temps as accurate as oral among elderly hospitalized patients? Hospitalized elderly Temperatures tympanic vs oral Accuracy
Subject headings Temperature Thermometers
Level I: systematic review or meta-analysis of RCTs
Level II: one well-designed RCT
Level III: one well-designed controlled trials without randomization
Level IV: one well-designed case-control and cohort studies
Level V: systematic reviews of descriptive and qualitative studies
Level VI: one descriptive or qualitative study
Level VII: opinion of authorities and/or reports of expert committees
Will nurses on an oncology unit who sit through a one-hour training have higher ‘Nursing Knowledge Attitude’ scores than nurses who are not given pain management training?
CINAHL
CochranePsycINFO
HaPi
Pain Management
Nurses’ Attitude
Oncology
Nursing Knowledge Attitude
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