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Advanced Searching

on CINAHL

on EBSCOhost 3rd April 2014

Claire Honeybourne, MSc. Sales Manager

Georg Vogtherr, MSc. Implementation Specialist

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Patient

Education

CME/CEU

Rehabilitation &

Sports Medicine

Hospital

Administration

Social Work

Research

Clinical

Point-of-Care

Nursing

Resources

Patient

Education

CME/CEU

Rehabilitation &

Sports Medicine

Hospital

Administration

Social Work

Research

Clinical

Point-of-Care

Nursing

Resources

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Objectives

• What is CINAHL & how to access it on EBSCOhost

• Using Subject Headings for more focused searches

• Combining keywords & subject headings

• Searching the EBSCOhost databases using advanced tools

(including proximity operators, truncation and wildcards, other

command language)

• Using Search History to save and re-run searches

• Exporting search results

• Keeping up-to-date using search & publication alerts

• Additional support & guidance


What is CINAHL

• Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature.

• Records 1981 onwards

• Also includes:

– access to health care books,

– nursing dissertations,

– selected conference proceedings,

– standards of practice,

– educational software,

– audiovisuals and book chapters.

– Pre-CINAHL immediate TOC for journals & author abstracts.


Versions of CINAHL

Updated on October 29, 2013

VERSION OF CINAHL

Full-Text

Journals

CINAHL with Full Text 604

CINAHL Plus with Full Text 769

CINAHL Complete 1,377


No Embargo No Embargo

No Embargo

1997 to present 1980 to present

2003 to present

Selected Active Full-Text Journals Found

in CINAHL Complete and NOT Full Text

in Any Other Version of CINAHL

12-Month Embargo

1980 to present

6-Month Embargo

2000 to present

No Embargo


No Embargo

No Embargo

1997 to present

2008 to present

12-Month Embargo

2006 to present

No Embargo No Embargo

1997 to present

No Embargo

2009 to present

2006 to present

Selected Active Full-Text Journals Found

in CINAHL Complete and NOT Full Text

in Any Other Version of CINAHL


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Choose Databases – CINAHL


The query

•A nurse manager is worried about her staff. She wants to know if the hours that they are working affect their physical and / or mental health.


CINAHL – Advanced Search


Subject searching

• CINAHL Subject Headings a controlled vocabulary thesaurus

that assists in more effectively searching your CINAHL

database.

• Each bibliographic reference in the database is associated

with a set of subject terms that are assigned to describe the

content of an article.

• Note: Pre-CINAHL does not have subject headings assigned.

• There are 12,714 CINAHL subject headings. These subject

headings are used to effectively search the database and

retrieve literature citations on a specific topic.

http://www.ebscohost.com/resources/cinahl-plus-with-full-text/lma/subject-headings.htm


Exploding

• CINAHL subject heading terms are arranged in a hierarchy, or

"tree structure", that permits searching at various levels of

detail from the most general level to more narrow levels to find

the most precise terms.

• The subject headings can be exploded to retrieve all

references indexed to that term as well as all references

indexed to any narrower term(s)e.g. Nurses exploded:


Limiting

• Searches can also be limited with specific qualifiers

(subheadings) to improve the precision of the search.There

are 68 topical subheadings that can be linked to CINAHL

subject headings. See http://www.ebscohost.com/resources/cinahl-plus-with-full-text/lma/topical-subheadings.htm

• Searches can be limited to major subject headings which

indicate the main focus of an article.


Suggest Subject Terms – mapping to thesaurus


Search History – Combining searches


Further limits to refine your search

• Use Limiters to narrow your search, for example:

– Publication – Limit search results to records from a specific title.

– Journal Subset – Choose from blind peer reviewed, behavioral sciences, nursing, etc.

– Special Interest – Limit to advanced nursing practice, case management, critical care, etc.

– Publication Type – Limit results to source types such as care plans or systematic review.

– Age Groups (Advanced) – Limit to Child, 6-12 years; Middle Age, 45-64 years, etc.


Search History – Refining results


The query

•A nurse, working in a residential home with the elderly is completing a college assignment. The nurse needs to find some good quality articles about measuring pain in people with dementia who find it difficult to communicate.


Viewing results

Result List Features

• Sort by: relevancy, date

• Linked Full Text (when enabled) will bring you to the full text

article, if available from alternate sources, e.g., other

EBSCOhost databases you subscribe to, EBSCO

subscriptions, or CrossRef.

• The folder allows you to add one or all results on the page to

your folder.


Cited References and Times Cited in this Database

Cited References is a quick way of looking at the

reference list for the article.

Times Cited in this Database is a good way to see where

the article has been quoted since it was published.

• If you click on either of these links, records underlined in

blue will have a full bibliographic record in CINAHL and

Full Text links if available. Records in black do not have a

bibliographic record in CINAHL but there may still be

links to full text if available.


Searching for Country specific Content


Using Geographic Journal Subset


Feature Example

subject headings "MH" searches both major and

minor headings

“MM” search just major headings

MH “tennis elbow”

explode "+" after the term MH “arm injuries+”

focus "MM" before the term MM “tennis elbow”

subheading use "/" after the main heading

followed by subheading

MH “tennis elbow/rh/nu/th”

MM “Diabetes Mellitus+/di”

floating subheading use MW (all subjects and subheadings)

fields

MJ "dt” (with quotes)

free floating

subheadings

MW “ae”

truncation "*" at the end of a term econom*

wild cards "?" within a term wom?n finds women & woman

field searching use the two-letter codes before the

term

TI vitamin c

AU nair b

AU nair b*

Proximity use nX to find words within X words of

each other in any order

use wX to find words within X words of

each other in the order they were

entered.

vitamin c n5 stress

EBSCOhost shortcuts


Saving Searches


Saving Searches – Permanent or temporary


Results list – Saving or exporting results


Enable Export in EBSCOadmin


Export Manager – sending results in RIS format


Export Manager – Retrieving results


Keeping-up-to-date – Search Alerts


Keeping up-to-date - Table of Contents alerts

To view specific publications select the Publications link from the menu bar and search for titles

or browse the a-z links etc. Click on a publication title to view the journal’s listing.


Publication alerts – Sign into MyEBSCOhost

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Exercise

• You run a cancer support group. The patients in the group are taking their medication but feel well enough to try some kind of alternative therapy in addition to their daily tablets. One of the group mentions that they might be interested in some kind of meditation and you as the lead have been tasked with finding some more information for them. You want to find if there is any evidence on the impact of meditation

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