ANSWERS(RATED A+)
when to Cochrane - ANSWER systematic reviews and meta analysis
summary of data presented in evidence based literature
PubMed central - 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 - 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 - ANSWER PMC
what all is contained within academic search premier - 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)
what is the commonalty between all databases found within cochrane - ANSWER they
all are based on evidence based information on health care interventions
cochrane reviews - 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include unpublished literature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 - ANSWER Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
summaries of systematic reviews published in literature
Each citation:
, -summary of the original article
-reviewer commentary
Central - ANSWER cochrane central register of controlled trials
title, source of publication, abstract from databases
CMR - ANSWER cochrane methodology register
articles that report the methodology used in conducting clinical trials
HTA - ANSWER health technology assessment database
information on completed and ongoing technology assessments
NHS EED - ANSWER PUBLISHED economic evaluations
meta-analysis - ANSWER researchers combine outcome data, stats, from several
studies for the purpose of strengthening the conclusion
evidence based medicine - ANSWER optimize decision making use using evidence well
done research
do you need to use quotations when searching keywords in cochrane? - ANSWER NO
does cochrane contain more or less articles than pubmed - ANSWER less, pubmed has
alot more articles
should you ever quote the results of a study to a caller - ANSWER NO!! you need to
read the entire study and interpret the results prior to giving information to a caller
with what report would you most likely submit to the physician - ANSWER the standard
report-
summary-probably too vague
full report-too long
why should you not search Cochrane for trials - ANSWER you cannot access the full
trials through cochrane, you would have to locate them using pubmed
because these are also indexed in medline, you know that if you find something in
cochrane it will also be available through pubmed
when should you use cochrane - ANSWER when looking for evidence of evidence
based medicine practice, meta-analyses and systematic reviews
what type of resource is google scholar - ANSWER search engine