Literature Searching: Theories Related to Nursing Care of the Adult

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Literature Searching Theories Related to Nursing
Care of the Adult

• Min-Lin Fang, MLIS
• Education and Information Consultant for Nursing
  and Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Objectives

• At the end of lecture, you will be able to
• Find an article quickly
• Develop search strategies and conduct efficient
  PubMed searches
• Identify MeSH(s) and use them to run searches
• Save searches and set up an automatic updates
• Run a quick search on CINAHL and Web of Science

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Nursing Subject Guide in the CLEhttp//tinyurl.co
m/ucsfnursing

• Key databases and Cross-database search
• EBM resources
• Nursing Theories
• Test Measurement
• E-Reserves/Comp Exam Examples
• Citation Management (EndNote vs RefWorks)
• Online Tutorials
• Get Help

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PubMed_at_UCSFhttp//www.library.ucsf.edu/db/pubmed
/

• UC-eLinks
• Link to UCSF full-text subscription
• Check UCSF Catalog and Melvyl_at_UCSF
• for journal location
• Request articles not owned by UCSF

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Quick Way to Find an Article
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Development of Search Strategies

• Formulate the question Break your question into
  multiple concepts
• Locate the proper MeSH/thesaurus for each
  concept Use AND to connect different concepts
• Use OR to connect similar concepts
• Refine your search
• Too Many? Apply limit options (language, subset,
  age, publication type, major heading, subheading)
• Too Few? Explode

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MyNCBI

• Create a free MyNCBI account
• Set user preferences highlight search words in
  your retrieval.
• Set Abstract format on MyNCBI account
• to open the supplemental data (MeSH, PTs)

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PubMed Quick TipsWhen you get too many results,
try these tips.

• Use Advanced Search.
• Use quotation marks to search on a phrase
• Use tiab to find a word/phrase in the title or
  the abstract
• Use ti to find a word/phrase in the title
• Use to find alternative endings (childgt
  child, children, childbearing)
• Use Limits options to narrow your search.
• Exercise
• Malnutrition in nursing homes

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Find the Most Recent Studies

• New studies not yet indexed
• e.g. PubMed in process
• PubMed as supplied by publisher
• Do a keyword search.
• Note The default display setting sorted by
  recently added.

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Why Use MeSH (Indexed Term)?

• MeSH terms (indexed terms) are an efficient way
  to find articles on concepts where authors may
  use different words to discuss the same ideas.
• Using MeSH improves precision and accuracy of
  subject searching.
• Keyword search (title, MeSH, abstract) may not
  retrieve relevant articles.
• Example physical therapy
• Storytelling as therapy implications for
  medicine.
• Abstract Storytelling is an art developed
  during the beginning of human history, probably
  to teach the wisdom of generations past,
  including basic mental and physical health
  principles

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Finding Relevant MeSH TermsUse Medical Subject
Headings to focus your search.

• Do a title word search
• TIPS
• Malnutrition ti AND nursing homes ti
• Set Abstract format on MyNCBI account
• to open the supplemental data (MeSH, PTs)
• malnutritionmh AND nursing homesmh
• Exercise
• Malnutrition in nursing home residents
• Pain management in adult palliative care
• English review articles on falls prevention among
  elderly

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PubMed vs CINAHL

• Type of Publication Covered
• MEDLINE articles only
• CINAHL articles, books, book chapters,
  nursing dissertations, standards of practice,
  educational software, clinical innovations,
  research instruments, etc.
• Year Coverage
• MEDLINE 1950-present
• CINAHL 1982-present
• Subject Coverage
• MEDLINE Focuses on biomedical journal
  literature
• CINAHL Focuses on nursing and allied health
  literature
• Updates
• MEDLINE daily
• CINAHL Weekly

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PubMed vs CINAHL

• Overlap
• Controlled Vocabulary
• MEDLINE Uses MeSH
• CINAHL Based on MeSH unique nursing and
  allied health terms called CINAHL Subject
  Headings
• Nursing theories CINAHL
• Peer-Reviewed Articles
• MEDLINE cant easily identify peer-reviewed
  articles CINAHL can use peer-reviewed limiter
  or use journal subset peer-reviewed to locate
  peer-reviewed articles
• Exercise
• Malnutrition in nursing home residents
• Pain management in adult palliative care
• English review articles on falls prevention among
  elderly

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More Databases

• Web of Science (Multidisciplines)
• Search from multidisciplinary literature
• Cited references, times cited
• PsycINFO
• SocAbstracts
• Exercise Mental health nursing and dementia care

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Citation Management

• Create your personal database of references,
  importing them from databases
• Cite references while you write a paper
• Automatically format the paper and the
  bibliography
• RefWorks
• Free Web-based service for UCSF students and
  personnel
• FAQ http//www.library.ucsf.edu/help/citemgmt/ref
  works