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Welcome
This tutorial is designed to teach you how to find the best evidence for clinical care in PubMed. Studies have shown that physicians generate from .16 - 1.27 clinical questions per patient they see (Davies 2007). Knowing how to search PubMed will facilitate more knowledgeable decision-making and can provide the information you need to answer difficult clinical questions.
While you may have searched PubMed in the past, this tutorial will focus on advanced features such as using Medical Subject Headings (often called MeSH terms), combining sets, and finding the best evidence for clinical questions. |
Objectives:
Upon completion of this tutorial, you will be able to develop and carry out a PubMed search that retrieves relevant citations from the medical literature. To accomplish this, you will learn to:
- Identify the major concepts of a clinical scenario using the PICOTT framework
- Identify relevant subject headings for each concept of your search
- Combine searches using the Boolean operators AND and OR
- Apply relevant limits or clinical queries to focus your search on the best evidence
This tutorial includes two major units and a quiz:
- Search Tips: This portion describes four tips to improve your PubMed searches.
- Do a Search: This portion of the tutorial consists of a guided, hands-on search of PubMed. It uses frames so that a live search of PubMed can be done while step-by-step instructions from the tutorial remain on the top part of the web page.
Please make sure that you have enough time to devote to the tutorial and quiz. While you can revisit pages within section 1, the live component of section 2 requires that it be completed in one session.
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