Searching Skills Toolkit: Finding the Evidence

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John Wiley & Sons, Nov 7, 2013 - Medical - 160 pages

Searching Skills Toolkit is an expert guide to help you find the clinical evidence you need more easily and effectively.

Clearly presented with useful tips and advice, flow charts, diagrams and real-life clinical scenarios, it shows the best methods for finding quality evidence. From deciding where to start, to building a search strategy, refining results and critical appraisal, it is a step-by-step guide to the process of finding healthcare evidence, and is designed for use by all health and social care professionals.

This second edition has been expanded with new chapters on searching for sources to support evidence-based management decision making and how to better enable your patients to make informed choices. It has also been fully updated to include new web sources, open source reference management software, and new training resources and exercises.

Searching Skills Toolkit is an ideal reference for doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, managers and decision makers, researchers and students.

 

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Contents

Dedication
Where tostart
Searching the Internet
Formulating searchable questions
Combining terms using Boolean operators
CHAPTER
Saving citations
Quality improvement and value sources
Patient information sources
Critical appraisal Definition
Teaching resources

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Searching Skills Toolkit: Finding the Evidence
Caroline De Brún,Nicola Pearce-Smith
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About the author (2013)

Caroline De Brún, Clinical Support Librarian, University College London, UK

Nicola Pearce-Smith, Information Scientist, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Oxford, UK

Bibliographic information

TitleSearching Skills Toolkit: Finding the Evidence
EBMT-EBM Toolkit Series
AuthorsCaroline De Brún, Nicola Pearce-Smith
Edition2
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013
ISBN1118463110, 9781118463116
Length160 pages
Subjects › 

Medical / Evidence-Based Medicine
Medical / General
  
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