Questions and CORRECT Answers
when to Cochrane - CORRECT ANSWER - systematic reviews and meta analysis
summary of data presented in evidence based literature
PubMed central - CORRECT ANSWER - gold standard for medical information or
patients
OPEN ACCESS
-full text peer reviewed articles for free for a minimum of 6months after the article is published
funded by the NLM (derived from pubmed central)
what is the ability for bias in Pubmed central - CORRECT ANSWER - the author may
have to pay for their study to be published, thus this could be considered a source of bias
what do you select from the drop down menu on pubmed in order to search via pubmed central -
CORRECT ANSWER - PMC
what all is contained within academic search premier - CORRECT ANSWER - scholarly
articles from medline
magazines
newspapers
*because of this you may want to limit your search results to peer reviewed articles (the other
ones may not be considered rigorous enough to be legit)
,articles listed in academic search premier regis always has access to? - CORRECT
ANSWER - FALSE-you have to check that we subscribe to that specific year
when to use academic search premier - CORRECT ANSWER - PUBMED IS ALWAYS
FIRST LINE!!
you should use this when pubmed does not have the information that you are looking for, or if
the information that you are looking for is multi-disclipinary
CINAHL - CORRECT ANSWER - cumulative index to nursing and allied health
literature
what are the two sponsoring organizations for CINAHL - CORRECT ANSWER -
national league for nursing
american nurses association
what types of documents are included in CINAHL - CORRECT ANSWER - full text
articles
journals
legal cases
clinical innovations
critical paths
clinical trials
T/F CINAHL has its own vocabulary - CORRECT ANSWER - TRUE
-click the suggest terms box above the search field
how do you account for truncation on CINAHL - CORRECT ANSWER - * or ?
, Transplant*
Transplant?
will bring up transplanting or transplantation
when should CINAHL - CORRECT ANSWER - this should be used when searching for
topics specific to health care professionals
cochrane dates of publication - CORRECT ANSWER - 1975 to present
details of cochrane - CORRECT ANSWER - not for profit
based in england
reviews and the expected date of publication are published
systematic reviews prepared by members of the cochrane collaboration
what is the commonalty between all databases found within cochrane - CORRECT
ANSWER - they all are based on evidence based information on health care interventions
cochrane reviews - CORRECT ANSWER - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
reviews of primary literatue
include unpublished literature
include non-english articles
summaries of conclusive evidence and implications of practice
DARE - CORRECT ANSWER - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
summaries of systematic reviews published in literature