Evidence-Based-medicine

We'll restrict to Major Mesh Topic

Evidence-Based-Medicine

Search Skills ,Tips and Tricks

DataBase Search

PubMed is a search engine,where you look for subject search

TDNet- Disover

Shlomit Nishri

Subject terms tree-

Thesaurus

Every Database has an hierarchic subject terms "tree" structure from the broader term, to the narrow one.

TDNet Discover is a unified point of access to both library holdings and external electronic resources

The ethical side of the moon...

A ball game Thesaurus

http://medicine.biu.ac.il/databases

Excersise 3

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Inter Library Loan

PubMed Thesaurus is called

MeSH

The use of Boolean operators:

In the right hand side of the search screen you will find Bar-Ilan's icon that indicates option to full text articles

Mesh= Medical Sbject Headings

If we don't have access to a specific article, you can apply to the library and ask for it.

OR

Measles outbreaks in the western world as a result of vaccination refusal.

We will get it for you!

Excersise 2

AND

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html

Search for the paper:

Billadeau DD1, Nolz JC, Gomez TS. Regulation of T-cell activation by the cytoskeleton. Nature Reviews.Immunology 2007 Feb;7(2):131-43. PMID: 17259969

"Measles"[Majr]

"Vaccination" [Majr]

AND

AND

(hesitancy OR resistance OR refusal)

NOT

Boolean Operators

Book Search

In the catalog of Bar-Ilan Univ. you will find all details about the library collection

We'll add the next MeSh Topic to

the Search Box

Which MeSH Topics

will we use?

http://lib.biu.ac.il

Finally We'll limit to the last 5 years:

"Craniocerebral Trauma"

AND

Exercise 1

"Child Abuse/diagnosis"

Search and find the book, according to the details bellow:

Nelson, David L./Lehninger principles of biochemistry. 6th ed. New York :W.H. Freeman,c2013

Mesh term could be quite different from the spoken language

Let's see how it's done properly

Sensitivity AND Specificity

For instance:

Mesh Search

In search:

("Craniocerebral Trauma"[Mesh]) AND ("Child Abuse/diagnosis"[Mesh]) AND (sensitivity AND specificity)

We'd like to find results for:

Questions?

Prevention and control of measles outbreaks in the world, in the last years.

Simple Search:

MeSH Search

(measles outbreaks prevention) or (measles outbreaks control)

Thank you.

Shlomit NIshri

Medical Librarian

Shlomit.nishri@mail.biu.ac.il

PICO and PubMed Search

Ecxersise 3:

In children admitted to hospital with head injury, is a short diagnostic tool as accurate as extensive examination to determine maltreatment?

Well-Built Clinical Question: Diagnosis

Let's see what does PICO stand for:

Population/problem = Children admitted to hospital with head injury

Index test = Short diagnostic tool

Comparator/control = Extensive diagnostic examination

Outcome= Maltreatment OR Child abuse

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