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Introduction to Healthcare Databases
Dominic GilroyLibrary & Knowledge Service Manager
Leeds & York Partnerships NHS FT
By the end of the session participants should be able to:
• Access the healthcare databases via NHS OpenAthens• Differentiate between the various healthcare databases and
be able to select the most appropriate • Understand how to plan a search using PICO• Understand the different between a free-text/word/phrase
search and a subject/thesaurus search• Perform a subject search in a healthcare database using the
thesaurus• View a Scope Note relating to a chosen subject heading• Use explode, major, and subheadings
By the end of the session participants should be able to:
• Combine search using Boolean operators• Use basic limits eg: Human, Male, Female, English Language• View abstracts• Access full-text papers• Print/email/save the selected records• Search for single citations using author, title or journal
reference• Save and retrieve a search strategy• Create an alert
About the Healthcare Databases
• 8 provided nationally to NHS England
• Bibliographic databases
• Often abstracts but no full-text papers
• Links to full-text provided elsewhere
• Typical record – page 3 of handbook
Planning the SearchIs epidural analgesia more effective than hypnosis in reducing phantom limb pain in people with lower limb amputation?
P – Patient / Population / Problem Amputation
I - Intervention / exposure Epidural Analgesia
C - Comparison Hypnosis
O - Outcome Phantom Limb Pain
About the databases?• AMED – Allied and Complementary Medicine
• BNI – British Nursing Index
• CINAHL – Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health
• EMBASE - European – Strengths in drugs and pharmacology
• Health Business Elite
• HMIC – Health Management Information Consortium
• Medline - International – perhaps best well known
• PsycINFO - Psychology and Psychiatry
Example SearchAre psychotherapeutic interventions effective in achieving weight loss in obese patients?
P – Patient / Population / Problem Obese (Patients)
I - Intervention / exposure Psychotherapy
C - Comparison -
O - Outcome Weight Loss
Free Text Searching – Tips & Tricks
Truncation & using the wildcard *
Psychotherap*
finds “psychotherapeutic, psychotherapy, psychotherapies, etc.”
Obes*
finds “obese, obesity”
Free Text Searching – Tips & Tricks
Quotation Marks “ ” find the exact phrase
“weight loss” finds just the phrase “weight loss”
weight loss (no quotes) would also find things like
“the weight of the argument suggests that no loss of accuracy would result from….”
Activity
Search for our three terms using * and “ “
• Obese
• Psychotherapy
• Weight Loss
Limitations of free-text searchPsychotherap*
finds “psychotherapeutic, psychotherapy, psychotherapies, etc.”
But not:
• Art therapy• Behaviour Therapy• Music therapy• Dance Therapy• Bibliotherapy• Reality therapy
and other types of psychotherapy
Activity
Search for our three terms using thesaurus and mapping
• Obese
• Psychotherapy
• Weight Loss
TREE, EXPLODE, MAJOR
Activity
Combine
1) Thesaurus and Free-Text search pairs with OR
2) Resulting themes with AND
Full Text Results
This is a print journal holdingWe have included these for local Leeds NHS Libraries in case e-access is not available
Contact Details
Dominic GilroyLibrary & Knowledge Service ManagerLeeds & York Partnerships NHS FTdominic.gilroy1@nhs.net0113 85 55658
Leeds Libraries for Healthwww.leedslibraries.nhs.uk
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