1. How to practice EBM: Finding the Evidence Owen Coxall, Tatjana Petrinic & Nia Wyn Roberts Bodleian Health Care Libraries

2. Session objectives Formulate a focused question Turn a focused question into a search Search TRIP & PubMed

3. Formulate a focused question Patient / Problem / Population Intervention Comparison Outcome

5. Focused question P: Pregnant smokers I: nicotine replacement C: N/A O: cessation Is nicotine replacement therapy an effective and safe smoking cessation treatment in pregnant women?

6. Quick search TRIP www.tripdatabase.com www.tripdatabase.com PubMed Clinical Queries www.pubmed.gov www.pubmed.gov

7. Hands-on Formulate a focused question ◦Use your own question or one of the examples in your pack ◦Record the search terms you’re using Run a quick search on TRIP www.tripdatabase.com www.tripdatabase.com Run a quick search on PubMed Clinical Queries www.pubmed.govwww.pubmed.gov

8. Run a full search strategy Why bother? Too few results Too many results Irrelevant results Submitting a funding proposal Writing a guideline Conducting a systematic review

9. Combine terms with OR smoking tobacco Smoking OR tobacco – either term can be present

10. Combine terms with AND Smoking AND cessation – both terms must be present cessation smoking

11. Quick tips Take a common word stem and look for spelling variations e.g. ◦smok* - will retrieve papers smoking, smoker, smokers… but also smoked salmon Phrase searching ◦Use double quote marks if you want words to appear next to each other e.g. “smoking cessation”

12. Develop a search strategy 1. pregnan* 2. smoking or smoker* 3. nicotine replacement OR nicotine patch* 4. cessation OR stop* OR quit* 5. 1 AND 2 AND 3 AND 4

13. Perform a search on PubMed

14. Searching tips: PubMed Subject searching - use MeSH ◦Subject headings added to articles on Medline ◦Search the MeSH Database Finding similar articles – use the ‘Related articles’ link

15. Hands-on Take your focused question: ◦Run further searches on PubMed http://www.pubmed.gov http://www.pubmed.gov

16. Help Finding the Evidence tutorials: ◦EBM web-site – EBM tools – Finding the Evidence http://www.cebm.net http://www.cebm.net PubMed ◦Short online tutorials ◦Quick guides to PubMed – basics, MeSH search and MyNCBI http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html