Searching Skills Toolkit is an expert guide to help you find the clinical evidence you need more easily and effectively.
Clearly presented with useful tips and advice, flow charts, diagrams and real-life clinical scenarios, it shows the best methods for finding quality evidence. From deciding where to start, to building a search strategy, refining results and critical appraisal, it is a step-by-step guide to the process of finding healthcare evidence, and is designed for use by all health and social care professionals.
This second edition has been expanded with new chapters on searching for sources to support evidence-based management decision making and how to better enable your patients to make informed choices. It has also been fully updated to include new web sources, open source reference management software, and new training resources and exercises.
Searching Skills Toolkit is an ideal reference for doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, managers and decision makers, researchers and students.
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Evidence-based medicine 1
Why search? 2
How do you keep up to date 4
Further reading 5
Chapter 2 Where to start 6
The hierarchy of evidence 6
The hierarchy of searching 7
1. How much time do I have? 8
2. What type of publication am I looking for? 10
3. Is my query about a specific topic? 13
Chapter 3 Clinical information: sources 15
Medical libraries 15
The Internet 15
Chapter 4 Searching the Internet 26
Search engines and directories 26
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