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SYSTEMATIC SEARCHING WORKSHOP OCTOBER 2021 - MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION


DOWNLOAD FILES

 * Presentation Workshop Part 1 and part 2
 * Handouts
 * Practicum Handouts
 * Summary document with homework
 * Answers Exercise 2 (Kidney Dialysis)
 * Answers Exercise 3 (Hip Osteoarthritis)
 * Answers Exercise 4 (Vitamins and hormones)


FILES AND LINKS FOR PART 2

 * Presentation Workshop Part 1 and part 2
 * Answers to homework session for part 2
 * Exercise 5: long lists (Emtree thesaurus)
 * Exercise 5: long lists (MeSH thesaurus)
 * Exercise 6: finding errors
 * Exercise 7: Searches for practicum on optimization
 * Macros for translation


HOMEWORK WORKSHOP PART 2

 1. Choose one of the research questions mentioned below.
 2. For a maximum of 4 elements choose the most important keywords (both
    controlled terms and free text terms) from your starting database's
    thesaurus. Do not use too many too broad thesaurus terms
 3. Using the practicum handouts, create a basic search strategy for your first
    database with the new method (See the table below). Follow each step in the
    handouts as precise as possible, and if possible test your query often
    during the creation. New code that was added compared to the search that
    already existed is underlined.
 4. If an element consists of multiple concepts combine them together within one
    set of parentheses, all thesaurus terms at the start of the element, and all
    title abstract terms within one set of parentheses at the end of the
    elements.
 5. Send the results to w.bramer@erasmusmc.nl (asap)
 6. If you have been succesfull in creating a search for one of the topics
    above, you are welcome to try it on one of your own topics.


RESEARCH QUESTIONS TO USE DURING THE PRACTICUM

 1. Physical activity/ exercise and job stress/ burnout in health care personnel
 2. Mobile Apps/ ehealth for lifestyle during pregnancy
 3. Patient adherence of anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation
 4. Risk factors for anastomotic leakage in gastrointestinal surgery


ORDER OF PREFERED STARTING DATABASE TO USE DURING THE PRACTICUM

You will use the first database on this list that you have access to. Whether
you not have experience with that database and interface or not is irrelevant.
You will learn most from the method if you use these databases. You can only
start in Medline if you don't have access to embase (which most of you have) and
you can only use PubMed if you don't have access to any of the other interfaces.

1.Embase.com 2.Embase via Ovid 3.Medline via Ovid 4.Medline via another
interface (such as EBSCOhost) 5.PubMed


TIPS WHEN CREATING SEARCH

 1. Edit in Word
    Copy your search from your word document to the database. If there are
    errors, repair them in Word. Never copy from the database to your word
    document.
 2. Code & parentheses before terms
    Follow the steps given in the practicum handouts closely. If an error
    appears mostly you have not followed the steps closely.
 3. Cursor positioning with arrow keys; paste with Ctrl-V
    Do not use the mouse to position your cursor or to paste search terms in
    your syntax.
 4. Don’t remove parentheses, add for new element or title/ abstract section
    Your search only needs these parentheses (apart from a few exceptions): For
    each element in your search you need parentheses around that element. Each
    element in your search has one title abstract section, which is within
    parentheses as well. Other parentheses are only from proximity, they are
    prepared and copied and pasted.
 5. Prepare proximity statement for phrase variations
    Keep a clean proximity statement in the top of your Word document that you
    can copy and paste when you want to use it in your search.
    * combine similar proximities
      Do not create too many proximity operators that basically use the same
      words, but combine proximities that overlap into one. This can even be
      between thesaurus terms.
 6. Use hypens in (truncated) phrases without variations Quotes differ per
    database and interface. Hyphens work the same in every database and
    interface. Fixed phrases for which there are no variations in your search
    you combine with quotes. This is also possible as part of a word group in a
    proximity statement.
 7. Copy from thesaurus
    Do not type your terms, but copy as much as possible to avoid typos.
     * use find and replace ^p to create managable lists
       If a list of synonyms is divided by semi-colons replace the semi-colons
       with ^p to place each term on a separate line. It is now easier to
       evaluate the terms.

 8. Start with ab,ti add other fields only in the end
    For embase you can ultimately use ab,ti,kw. For Medline it is recommended to
    use ab,ti,kw. However, do not do this when still creating the search as it
    will render the optimization that we will perform later impossible.


USEFULL LINKS

 1. PubReminer
 2. Serving Evidence Syntheses (PhD thesis Wichor Bramer)
 3. Publications Wichor Bramer