hcmg 4901 applied research spring 2015
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Library 101
Effective Searching
Practice
HCMG 4901 Applied Research
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Off-Campus Access
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Articulate a Topic
Stress in the emergency room affects patient care.
What kind of stress?
Whose stress?
What is the effect on patient care?
Are there multiple effects on patient care?
Is it isolated to the ER?
Identify search concepts
workload
stress
fatigue
sleep deprivation
patient care
outcomes
safety
diagnosis
Concept or Problem I Related Concept I *
*perhaps a Variable
Identify search concepts
emergency room/ER
intensive care
medical error
medication error
mortality rate
outcomes
misdiagnosis
iatrogenic
Concept or Problem II Related Concept II
Boolean Operators
AND = narrow
OR = expand
NOT = exclude
patient AND safety
fatigue OR stress
nurse NOT physician
Truncation
truncation
type part of a word plus an asterisk (*) into the search box to find variations of a word stem
nurs* finds nurse, nurses, nursing
medica* finds medical, medication
obes* finds obese, obesity
pregnan* finds pregnant, pregnancy
Search Strategy Worksheet
Concept/Problem
AND
Concept/Problem
AND
Concept/Problem
Main idea Related idea Related Idea or Variable
OR OR OR
Synonym Synonym Synonym
OR OR OR
Synonym Synonym Synonym
Search Strategy
“emergency room” AND (fatigue OR stress) AND outcomes
(“emergency room” OR “intensive care”) AND (stress OR fatigue) AND (mortality OR morbidity)
• Use “ “ or ( ) to keep words together & in order• Connect different concepts with AND• Connect similar concepts with OR
My EBSCOhost
Topics
Childhood obesity and the early onset of diabetes and heart disease in America.
Effective strategies for increasing HPV vaccination among young women in America and the use of the Social Ecological Model.
Preventing texting while driving to prevent fatal motor vehicle accidents.