On subject of Pubmed did people see prog about acupuncture on Tuesday -
it was good to hear lots of talk about evidence and that its not the
number of trials but the quality, I did notice that she was using
pubmed. Two more prog's to come on healing and herbalism I think.
Rowena Perry
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-----Original Message-----
From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew Booth
Sent: 26 January 2006 11:36
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Subject: Handy PubMed hint
Forgive me if you already know this but I discovered this when preparing
a
Medline filters tutorial:
Unlike the other Pub Med Clinical Queries features which appear to use a
string of keywords, the filter for systematic reviews is operationalised
as
an actual subset (systematic[sb]).
What this means in practice is that if you do ANY Pubmed search (for
example
in the standard interface) you can add "AND systematic[sb]" to restrict
to
systematic review type materials. (I had previously believed that you
had to
choose to either do a quick and dirty in the Clinical Queries option or
to
do a more extended search in the standard interface and then use your
own
filter words).
Obviously this tip carries two cautions:
1. Pubmed uses a very loose (i.e. sensitive) definition of what goes
into
this set (e.g. it includes consensus statements!!)
2. As with any shortcut it requires further evaluation.
However it could be particularly useful at the "scoping stage" where you
want an overall snapshot of what evidence is already out there.
That will teach me to read "Help" more often!
Regards
Andrew
Andrew Booth,
Director of Information Resources & Reader in Evidence Based Information
Practice,
School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR),
University of Sheffield,
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