4. Type of Study Type of Question Ideal Type of Study Therapy RCT Prevention RCT > Cohort > Case Control Diagnosis Prospective, blind controlled comparison to gold standard Prognosis Cohort > Case Control > Case Series/Case Report Etiology/Harm RCT > Cohort > Case Control

7. Boolean Strickland, Jennifer and Henderson, John R. (October 10, 2005). Boolean Logic . Retrieved September 22, 2007, from http://www.ithaca.edu/library/course/expert.html.

8. Boolean Strickland, Jennifer and Henderson, John R. (October 10, 2005). Boolean Logic . Retrieved September 22, 2007, from http://www.ithaca.edu/library/course/expert.html.

9. Boolean and Nesting Strickland, Jennifer and Henderson, John R. (October 10, 2005). Boolean Logic . Retrieved September 22, 2007, from http://www.ithaca.edu/library/course/expert.html.

11. Quotation Marks Using quotation marks for a phrase forces the database to return results where those words appear together. Without Quotations = 57,360 results With Quotations = 13,180 results

13. Go to “ Advanced Scholar Search”

14. Scholar Preferences

15. Scholar Preferences, cont… Activate links to locally held online full text. Send citations directly to your citation management program.

16. Advanced Scholar Search Use truncation Search exact phrases Use limits to narrow results by specific author, publication , and date range. Narrow by subject area

17. Set Up Alert Click the envelope to access the alert service.

18. Set Up Alert, cont… Alerts will automatically be sent to your email.

20. Access Be sure to access PubMed from becker.wustl.edu to take advantage of library links to full text.

21. Create a My NCBI Account

22. Create a My NCBI Account, cont…

23. MeSH = Medical Subject Headings Choose MeSH from Pull Down Menu

25. MeSH cont… Choose the most applicable MeSH terms Click on the best term.

27. Advanced Search Once you have searched each term separately, go to advanced search to combine them.

28. Advanced Search, cont… Enter search numbers and combine using Boolean operators.

29. Limits

31. Accessing Full-Text Articles NOT FREE FREE Avoid clicking on publisher icons unless they explicitly state that they are free or unless you are willing to pay $ 35.00 -65.00 dollars per article.

32. Accessing Full-Text Articles, cont… It is likely that your institution’s library has facilitated link-out in PubMed to link you directly to articles from journals to which they subscribe to. It is also likely that your institution’s library has an Inter-Library Loan service that will “borrow” the article you want from another library for you for a small charge (certainly less then $35.00!) or for free. Contact your librarian and find out what services are available and how to use them.