Health Database Searching Beyond MEDLINE

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Health Database Searching - Beyond MEDLINE MeSH

• Instructors
• Dean Giustini Greg Rowell

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Agenda

• Business arising (1/2 hour)
• Discussion of assignment 1
• Required reading
• Review (1 hour)
• MEDLINE
• EMBASE CINAHL
• Break (20 minutes)
• Search exercises in Koerner lab (1 hr)

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MEDLINE Review

• Scope
• of journals indexed? of citations? Coverage?
  Content?
• Different interfaces
• PubMed, OVID - whats the difference?
• MeSH linked to NLM classification
• NLM classification has broad categories, relying
  on MeSH for detailed subject access

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EMBASE Overview

• Scope of database
• of journals indexed? of citations? Coverage?
  Content?
• Structure
• Polyhierarchic like MeSH facets and cascading
  EMTREE terms
• Search interface
• OVID only some free via Science Direct

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CINAHL Overview

• Scope of database
• of journals indexed? of citations? Coverage?
  Content?
• Different interfaces
• OVID, EBSCO at RNABC
• CINAHL headings
• Used in the UBC Library catalogue?

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Lab

• MEDLINE
• Sample searches
• CINAHL
• Sample searches
• EMBASE
• Sample searches