Week 3 - Aquiring Evidence

Question 2

Where do we find research

Answer 2

citation databases = Medline, CINHAL
full-text databases = Proquest,

Question 3

How do you use these databases

Answer 3

when searching it is imoortant to put special words into the title
you need to look out for…
- spelling
- terminology
- medical terminology

Question 4

How to start a keyword search

Answer 4

Format a PICO question

Question 5

What are boolean operators

Answer 5

‘and’, ‘or’, ‘not’

Boolean operators makes searching for efficient, as you exclude all papers that might not be relevant.

Question 6

What is truncation

Answer 6

helps to increase range of results
symbol = * (retrieves other spelling)

Question 7

what are wildcards

Answer 7

used to deal with spelling variation i.e, american spelling vs aus spelling

symbol = #

Question 8

What is phrase searching

Answer 8

Phrase searching involves using quotation marks to search for words as a phrase

Question 9

What is important to do after you have searched your question

Answer 9

Limit results
Reference results
Paraphrasing