HCMG 4901 Applied Research Spring 2015

Library 101

Effective Searching

Practice

HCMG 4901 Applied Research

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Articulate a Topic

Stress in the emergency room affects patient care.

What kind of stress?

Whose stress?

What is the effect on patient care?

Are there multiple effects on patient care?

Is it isolated to the ER?

Identify search concepts

workload

stress

fatigue

sleep deprivation

patient care

outcomes

safety

diagnosis

Concept or Problem I Related Concept I *

*perhaps a Variable

Identify search concepts

emergency room/ER

intensive care

medical error

medication error

mortality rate

outcomes

misdiagnosis

iatrogenic

Concept or Problem II Related Concept II

Boolean Operators

AND = narrow

OR = expand

NOT = exclude

patient AND safety

fatigue OR stress

nurse NOT physician

Truncation

truncation

type part of a word plus an asterisk (*) into the search box to find variations of a word stem

nurs* finds nurse, nurses, nursing

medica* finds medical, medication

obes* finds obese, obesity

pregnan* finds pregnant, pregnancy

Search Strategy Worksheet

Concept/Problem

AND

Concept/Problem

AND

Concept/Problem

Main idea Related idea Related Idea or Variable

OR OR OR

Synonym Synonym Synonym

OR OR OR

Synonym Synonym Synonym

Search Strategy

“emergency room” AND (fatigue OR stress) AND outcomes

(“emergency room” OR “intensive care”) AND (stress OR fatigue) AND (mortality OR morbidity)

• Use “ “ or ( ) to keep words together & in order• Connect different concepts with AND• Connect similar concepts with OR

My EBSCOhost

Topics

Childhood obesity and the early onset of diabetes and heart disease in America.

Effective strategies for increasing HPV vaccination among young women in America and the use of the Social Ecological Model.

Preventing texting while driving to prevent fatal motor vehicle accidents.