Spring 2015 nutr427 capstone

Evidenced Based Literature

NUTR427

Purpose

To enhance your searching skills with library resources for the purpose of increasing your success with finding scholarly sources to support your patient case.

Tasks

▪ Students will be able to locate disease state information in order to support the medical nutrition therapy presented in their patient case.

▪ Students will be able to use Quick Search to locate scholarly articles to support the medical nutrition therapy intervention presented in their patient case.

Criteria

▪You will know you’re successful when: ▪ You’re able to locate a disease state

and nutritional information in UpToDate ▪ You can identify the type of evidenced

based literature that will support your patient case using Quick Search or other Biomedical databases along with specialized vocabulary to locate evidence.

Finding Evidence

▪ Types of Evidence

▪ Start with a question

Library TOOLS

▪ Quick Search

▪ UpToDate – Evidenced Based Clinical Support

▪ Biomedical Literature - Databases▪ Controlled vocabularies

Meta-Analysis

Systematic Review

Cohort Studies

Case Series/Case Reports

Original Studies/Animal Research

Levels of Evidence Hierarchy

Randomized Controlled Trial

Case Control studies

Nutrition Care Process

▪ Nutrition Care Process

▪ PES (Problem, Etiology, Symptoms) statement of the nutrition diagnosis

▪ Enteral (EN)

▪ Parenteral (PN)

ADIME – Nutrition Care Process

▪ A= Assess

▪ D= Diagnosis

▪ I= Intervene (Intervention, Nutrient Prescription, Nutrient Intervention, Goal)

▪ M=Monitor

▪ E=Evaluate

Familiar Controlled Vocabularies

Controlled vocabularies (Thesaurus)

MeSH Medical Subject Headings

Other Sources for Evidence

Nutrition Sciences Subject Guide

http://guides.library.unlv.edu/nutritionsciences

Practice Based Evidence in Nutrition (PEN)

http://www.pennutrition.com/Home.aspx

Evidence Based Guides for Practice

National Guidelines Clearinghouse

http://www.guideline.gov/content.aspx?id=32479

Evidence Analysis Library (EAL)

Nutrition Guidelines http://andevidencelibrary.com/default.cfm?library=EBG&home=1

Library Tutorials

https://www.library.unlv.edu/tutorials

Thank YouMS. XAN GOODMAN, MLIS, AHIP

HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES LIBRARIAN