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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: C De Brun , Nicola Pearce-Smith , Carl Heneghan , Rafael PereraPublisher: 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: 9781405178884ISBN 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 ![]() Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of Contents1 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 tipsReviewsVery 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 InformationCaroline 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 Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |