Searching Skills Toolkit: Finding the Evidence

Author:   C De Brun ,  Nicola Pearce-Smith ,  Carl Heneghan ,  Rafael Perera
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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9781405178884


Pages:   136
Publication Date:   02 January 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   C De Brun ,  Nicola Pearce-Smith ,  Carl Heneghan ,  Rafael Perera
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Dimensions:   Width: 11.30cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 17.10cm
Weight:   0.114kg
ISBN:  

9781405178884


ISBN 10:   1405178884
Pages:   136
Publication Date:   02 January 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction. 2 Where to start? Summary tables and charts. 3 Sources of clinical information: an overview. 4 Using search engines on the World Wide Web. 5 Formulating clinical questions. 6 Building a search strategy. 7 Free text versus thesaurus. 8 Refining search results. 9 Searching specific healthcare databases. 10 Citation pearl searching. 11 Saving/recording citations for future use. 12 Critical appraisal. 13 Further reading by topic or PubMed ID. 14 Glossary of terms. Appendix 1: Ten tips for effective searching. Appendix 2: Teaching tips

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Very useful. The authors are clearly experts in searching and they fill a gap in the market: there is no comparable book on 'the searching of the evidence.' ... [I] recommend this book to doctors who want to learn basic searching skills. As a medical information specialist I keep it in my pocket too. (Laika's MedLibLog, March 2010)


Very useful. The authors are clearly experts in searching and they fill a gap in the market: there is no comparable book on 'the searching of the evidence.' ...[I] recommend this book to doctors who want to learn basic searching skills. As a medical information specialist I keep it in my pocket too. ( Laika's MedLibLog , March 2010)


A userfriendly, HandsOn guide to literature searching, which is an essential skill for all involved in health care research and development, researchers, and students from all disciplines. ( Companies and products -- Data , 9 February 2013) Very useful. The authors are clearly experts in searching and they fill a gap in the market: there is no comparable book on 'the searching of the evidence.' ... [I] recommend this book to doctors who want to learn basic searching skills. As a medical information specialist I keep it in my pocket too. ( Laika's MedLibLog , March 2010)


Author Information

Caroline De Brun , Librarian, National Knowledge Service, Oxford, UK Nicola Pearce-Smith , Information Scientist, National Library for Health, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Oxford, UK

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