PubMed for Anaesthesiologists
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PubMed for AnaesthesiaMay 26th, 2010
Robin FeatherstoneClinical Medicine Librarianrfeathe@uwo.ca
Slides: www.slideshare.net/featherr
Website: www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/anesthesiaandperioperativemedicine/
Refresher: What’s in PubMed?
• PubMed as supplied by publisher‑• PubMed in process ‑• PubMed indexed for MEDLINE ‑• PubMed • PubMed – OLDMEDLINE (1947 – 1965)
Which citations would you find with a MeSH search?
MeSH 101
Why is MeSH important?
Agenda: 4 Scenarios & 4 Tools
• The Review– Advanced Search
• The Clinical Question– Clinical Queries
• The Regular Update– E-mail updates in MyNCBI
• The Bibliographic Analysis– GoPubMed
1. The Review
• You have to find EVERY article on a particular topic
• You are assisting a research team or writing an article for publication
Scenario
You are hired by a faculty researcher who is conducting research on magnesium following brain injury. They ask you to find every RCT published on the subject in the last five years.
Quick search
Comprehensive search
Comprehensive search query
Search strategy for a review
1. State the topic 2. Identify individual concepts3. Search each concept separately
– Make sure you are using MeSH terms– Consider synonyms, related terms, variant endings and
spellings
4. Combine search sets5. Evaluate results and modify the search strategy as
needed6. Apply limits
2. The Clinical Question
You need to answer a question at the point of care to: – Support a clinical decision– Answer a patient’s question
Scenario
A colleagues asks which has fewer postoperative risks: tranexamic acid or aprotinin?
Quick search
Clinical query search
Clinical Question Strategy
• Use Clinical Queries in PubMed to find the best studies to answer your question
Enter your keywords and select the type of question that you want to answer
3. The Regular Update
• You want to stay up to date on the latest publications, but don’t have time to run regular searches
Scenario
Your area of research interest is postoperative pain in laparoscopic surgery and you want to stay up to date on the very latest publications.
Quick search
Regular Update Strategy
• Start an account with PubMed (MyNCBI)– Set up your search to run automatically and have
the results sent to your email
Setting up an alert
• Select MyNCBI or “Sign In” to your account
• Run your search • Select “Save Search”
• Name your search• Set up your e-mail update preferences
4. The Bibliographic Analysis
• You need an overview of scholarly activity within your field
Quick search
GoPubMed: www.gopubmed.org/
Recap
1. Do all PubMed citations have MeSH headings? 2. How can you limit your search to find only
therapeutic studies? 3. Which website will analyze PubMed results?4. What tool will show you how PubMed
interpreted your search terms?5. How do you get PubMed to send email alerts
of the latest publications in your field?
Robin FeatherstoneClinical Medicine Librarianrfeathe@uwo.ca
Slides: www.slideshare.net/featherr
Website: www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/anesthesiaandperioperativemedicine/
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