Transcript Categories of information resource

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LIBRARY SERVICES
Internet sources of
information
Paula Funnell
[email protected]
Senior Academic Liaison Librarian (Medicine and Dentistry)
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Categories of information resource
• Web search engines
• Electronic databases
• Clinical summaries
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Web search engines
• Specifically ones which search across a
range of good quality internet resources
• Several medicine specific search engines
• Provide huge variety of results
• Beware quality of information.
– Is it evidence based?
– Has it been critically appraised?
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Databases
• Vast collections of references of published
research
• Filters can be applied to narrow results
down
• Searches can be combined and saved for
future use
• References can be imported to EndNote
Web
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Clinical Summaries
• NOT source of primary research
• Evidence has been read and summarised
• Information presented in a short
paragraph, or as little as a bullet point
• Up-to-date and accurate sources of clinical
knowledge
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Categories of information resource
You have each been allocated a resource
from one of the different categories. Use the
worksheet to guide you in familiarising
yourself with the resource and be ready to
report back to the group about it.
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Categories of information resource
Web search engines
Clinical Summaries
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• Clinical Evidence
• Clinical Knowledge
Systems
• Bandolier
Google Scholar
Medline Plus
NHS Evidence
Trip
Online Databases
• Medline (PubMed)
• Web of Science
• The Cochrane Library
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Web search engines
• Specifically ones which search across a
range of good quality internet resources
• Several medicine specific search engines
• Provide huge variety of results
• Beware quality of information.
– Is it evidence based?
– Has it been critically appraised?
www.library.qmul.ac.uk
TRIP database
• One simple search box
• Results colour coded by format of
information found giving an at a glance
indication of quality of information
• Results vary widely - including primary
research, reviews, textbooks and news
www.tripdatabase.com
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Google scholar
• Will generate more academic results than
Google
• Can be limited by date
• No indication of quality of information
http://scholar.google.co.uk
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Medline Plus
• US National Institutes of Health's web site
for patients and their families and friends
• Designed to provide up-to-date healthcare
information in understandable language
• Also provides links to the latest medical
research
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
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NHS Evidence
• Searches across all electronic resources
provided by NHS
• Results can be filtered
– Type of information
– Areas of interest
– Sources
www.evidence.nhs.uk
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Databases
• Vast collections of references of published
research
• Filters can be applied to narrow results
down
• Searches can be combined and saved for
future use
• References can be imported to EndNote
Web
www.library.qmul.ac.uk
The Cochrane Library
• High quality systematic reviews
• Full text of Cochrane reviews
• Abstracts of other systematic reviews and
clinical trials
www.thecochranelibrary.com
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Medline (Pubmed)
• Pubmed is a search interface for Medline
• Database of references and abstracts of
journal articles
• Covers the broad field of biomedicine
• Special QM PubMed address for easier
full-text access
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=igbqmullib
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Web of science
• Part of ISI Web of Knowledge
• Contains:
– Science Citation Index
– Social Sciences Citation Index
– Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• Need to log in off campus
http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/
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Clinical Summaries
• NOT source of primary research
• Evidence has been read and summarised
• Information presented in a short
paragraph, or as little as a bullet point
• Up-to-date and accurate sources of clinical
knowledge
www.library.qmul.ac.uk
Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)
• Provides short bullet point lists of
information
• Accompanied with links to primary
research
• Covers common conditions managed in
primary care
www.cks.nhs.uk
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Clinical Evidence
• Current evidence-based reviews of
treatments (currently 260)
• Clinical information displayed in a question
and answer format
• Links to current evidence and guidelines
• Additional links provided to patient
information and BNF
www.clinicalevidence.com
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Bandolier
• Oxford University compiled resource
• Contains summaries of clinical trials
• ‘bottom line’ evidence provided in one
bullet point
http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/index.html
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Summary
• Use specialist search engines to search
across a wide range of good quality web
resources
• Use databases to find academic research
articles, both primary research as well as
review articles
• Use clinical summaries for a quick
overview of the best available evidence
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