Transcript Columbia University Medical Center

Expert PubMed/Medline
Searching Skills
Konstantina (Dina) Matsoukas, MLIS
Head of Reference & Education Coordinator
CUMC - Health Sciences Library
[email protected]
April 29, 2011
Acknowledgements
•This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from
the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department
of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. NO1-LM-6-3501 with
New York University.
•This series of training classes was developed by Konstantina (Dina)
Matsoukas, Head of Reference and Education Coordinator of the Augustus
C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University.
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IFH Training Class Series 2011
Orientation to Health Sciences Information Resources (Feb 23@12pm)
Comprehensive Searching of the Medical Literature (Mar 3@12pm)
Smart Googling for Healthcare Professionals (Mar 10@12pm)
Community Health and Demographic Data Sources (Mar 21@12pm)
Keeping Up with the Medical Literature (Mar 29@12pm)
Overview of Public Health Information Resources (Apr 6@12pm)
Finding Evidence Based Information Resources (Apr 13@12pm)
Expert PubMed/Medline Searching Skills (Apr 29 @12pm)
Finding Patient Education Information Resources (May 3 @12pm)
Searching for Data in Statistical Information Resources (May 11 @12pm)
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Topics covered in this session:
1. Anatomy of a PubMed record
2. Field searching in PubMed
3. Over-riding PubMed’s default settings
4. PubMed links to other NCBI resources
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Anatomy of a PubMed record
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PubMed – http://www.pubmed.gov
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PubMed – in process records
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PubMed – in process records (no MeSH)
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PubMed’s Display Setting Options
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Display Setting - MEDLINE (for in process record)
In process records
have not yet been
fully indexed –
so no MeSH
headings
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LIMITing to MEDLINE records
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LIMITing to MEDLINE records
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PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE
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Display Setting - MEDLINE
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MEDLINE record’s fields
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Grant info
MeSH
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Grant info
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MeSH, Substance name, Supplemental concept
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Field searching in PubMed
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Let’s try it out….
Example Scenario
You are a family physician who regularly counsels your patients on
family planning – specifically about what is a healthy interval of time
for them to wait before starting to try having another baby.
You generally recommend about 18 months or so to ensure the best
outcomes for mother and baby. Your colleague tells you that there is
a new study out of Columbia University published in the journal
Pediatrics that now suggests that short time intervals between
pregnancies might increase the chances of having a child born with
autism.
You wish to locate the PubMed citation to that study.
How do you go about finding it quickly?
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PubMed – http://www.pubmed.gov
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/citmatch
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Field searching via LIMITS
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Field searching via Advanced Search
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All fields in the
MEDLINE record are
available to be
searched on.
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Over-riding PubMed’s default settings
Manual vs. Automatic
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Forcing a bound “phrase search”
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PubMed’s default is to AND terms
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Surround phrase in quotation marks
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Combining subheadings with AND (instead of
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the default OR)
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Add subheadings to search individually to AND
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Can always manually
edit the query in this box!
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When you do not want MeSH exploded…
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Dropping Explode function with truncation
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PubMed links to other NCBI resources
•The National Center for Biotechnology Information
advances science and health by providing access to
biomedical and genomic information.
•PubMed provides access and links to the integrated
molecular biology and chemistry databases
maintained by NCBI.
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PubMed links to other NCBI resources
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Database/
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Let’s try it out….
Example Scenario
You have the opportunity to attend the lecture where research will be
discussed that may someday revolutionize the way heart disease is treated:
Speaker: Eric Olson, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology Robert A. Welch
Distinguished Chair Annie and Willie Nelson Professor Pogue Distinguished
Chair in Research on Cardiac Birth Defects University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center at Dallas
Lecture title:
"MicroRNA Control of Heart Disease: From New Biology toward
New Therapeutics"
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OMIM - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/611116
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Gene - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene
Gene integrates/curates
info from various sources –
useful for learning about
genes and their associated
disorders and phenotypes
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/406990
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Questions?
Konstantina (Dina) Matsoukas, MLIS
Head of Reference & Education Coordinator
CUMC - Health Sciences Library
tel. 212-305-1411
[email protected]
Reference Desk: 212-305-3692
email: [email protected]
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Further Reading
•PubMed Tutorial
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial/
•NCBI Tutorials
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/education/tutorials/
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