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Paula [email protected]
Faculty Liaison Librarian (Medicine and Dentistry)
www.library.qmul.ac.
uk
Guide to Internet sources of information
Categories of information resource
• Web search engines
• Electronic databases
• Clinical summaries
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?
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
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
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.
Categories of information resource
Web search engines• Google Scholar• Medline Plus• Evidence Search• Trip
Online Databases• Medline (PubMed)• Web of Science• The Cochrane Library
Clinical Summaries• Clinical Evidence• Clinical Knowledge
Summaries• Evidence Based Medicine
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?
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
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
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/
Evidence Search
• Searches across all electronic resources provided by NHS
• Results can be filtered– Type of information– Areas of interest– Sources
www.evidence.nhs.uk
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
The Cochrane Library
• High quality systematic reviews• Full text of Cochrane review• Abstracts of other systematic reviews
and clinical trials
www.thecochranelibrary.com
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 accesswww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=igbqmullib
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 campushttp://wok.mimas.ac.uk/
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
Clinical Knowledge Summaries
• Provides short bullet point lists of information
• Accompanied with links to primary research
• Covers common conditions managed in primary care
http://cks.nice.org.uk/e
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
Evidence-Based Medicine
• Experts critically appraise clinically relevant articles
• Produce summaries of content• Comment on clinical applicability• Publishes articles relevant to study and
practice of EBMebm.bmj.com
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
