1. Tips to search the literature
Example with Econlit
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Knowledge manager, Centre fédéral d'expertise des soins de santé (KCE)
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2. Approach
1. Identify your problem
2. Define a structured question
3. Find the best evidence
4. How valid is the study?
5. What are the results?
6. How should I apply the results to patient care?
Source: Guyatt G, Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Users' guides to the medical literature : a manual for evidence-based clinical practice. 2nd ed. New York:
McGraw-Hill Medical; 2008.
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3. 1. IDENTIFY YOUR PROBLEM
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4. Example
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5. 2. DEFINE A
STRUCTURED QUESTION
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6. Example
Source : Horsmans Y, Thiry N, le Polain M, Adler M, Colle I, Delwaide J, Michielsen P, Orlent H, Van Damme P, Hulstaert F. Rapport coût-efficacité
du traitement antiviral de l’hépatite B chronique en Belgique. Partie 1: Examen de la littérature et résultats d’une étude nationale. Health Technology
Assessment (HTA). Bruxelles: Centre fédéral d’expertise des soins de santé (KCE). 2010. KCE Reports 127B. D/2010/10.2738/23.
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7. Example (cont.)
(CHB OR (Hepatitis B
ADJ2 Chronic*))
AND
(NA OR (Nuclo?ide ADJ2
analogue) OR (Interferon
ADJ3 therap*))
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8. 3. FIND THE BEST EVIDENCE
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9. Databases for economic evaluations
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10. ECONLIT
http://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/
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11. EconLit fact sheet
Producer American Economic Association (AEA, USA)
Time
coverage
1969-
Source 5400 worldwide journals currently in 30 languages
Topics Economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal theory; monetary
theory and financial institutions; business finance; public finance; and
international, labour, health care, managerial, demographic, regional,
agricultural, and urban economics; country studies, and government
regulations
Content Journal Articles over 750, absctracts since1987 ; Books 1987- ; Collective
Volume Articles ; Dissertations 1987- ; Working Papers (CUP, RePEc) ;
Book Reviews 1994- (full-text)
Indexation Subject Keywords : automatically, from a controlled vocabulary list, in Ti or
Ab, since 1991 ; Geographic Descriptors: 1-5 ; Subject Descriptors :
manually, full-text ;
1969-1990 : old JEL numerical classification ; 1991-1999 : old and new ;
1999 - : new JEL numerical classification
Abstracts Author-written English abstracts
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12. JEL Classification codes
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13. Example
Source : Horsmans Y, Thiry N, le Polain M, Adler M, Colle I, Delwaide J, Michielsen P, Orlent H, Van Damme P, Hulstaert F. Rapport coût-efficacité
du traitement antiviral de l’hépatite B chronique en Belgique. Partie 1: Examen de la littérature et résultats d’une étude nationale. Health Technology
Assessment (HTA). Bruxelles: Centre fédéral d’expertise des soins de santé (KCE). 2010. KCE Reports 127B. D/2010/10.2738/23.
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14. Search 1st
concept (patient / pathology)
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15. Results
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17. Thank you!
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