How To Do a Literature Search if you are a student Designed by CCH Health Care Library, October 2011 Rev.11/15

If you click on our library home page at Health Care Library, you will find Databases for Literature Searching in the right hand column.

When you click on that you will find several different databases, that can all be searched individually. Some of them need logins and passwords. You can find them on the last two slides.

Cochrane Library A collection of databases that describe, interpret and evaluate the results of extensive, well conducted clinical trials and other research studies. Considered to be the gold standard of evidence-based practice. CINAHL Complete A comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,400 journals indexed in CINAHL, as well as searchable cited references for more than 1,500 journals. NHS Economic Database The NHS Economic Evaluation Database assists decision- makers in professional health care by providing information on the costs and effects of drugs, treatments and procedures.

PubMed PubMed is a search and retrieval system of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). It is based on the MEDLINE database and contains over 10 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration in biomedicine Another easy-to-search nursing database containing many full-text articles (Does not need login and password at work but you need them from home) Medline Complete Medline Complete A database with more than 2,500 FULL TEXT articles and searchable citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.

Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source Contains full-text for over 190 sports and rehabilitation journals. A key database for hospital rehabilitation and sports clinicians. with full-text coverage dating back to 1963 and key scholarly titles in this discipline. Rehabilitation Reference Center An evidence-based clinical reference tool for use by rehabilitation clinicians and the point of care.

We will use to do our

On the next slide you see what the interface looks like. We are going to use Advanced Search because that allows us to combine our subjects, which is a way of limiting the number of articles and get the most pertinent articles for our search. We will do a search to see if CPAP masks help people with sleep apnea. The next slide shows the search interface and where we have put our first search term. Click on Search.

You can choose between “exploding” the search word or search it as a Keyword. The difference is explained to you under “Hints”. We choose exploding.

On the next slide we have added CPAP mask, also exploding it. If we combine Sleep apnea and CPAP mask we get 117 articles. Click on “Display”.

We think that 117 articles are still to many. Lets limit the articles to “Full Text” and “English Language”. We get 31 articles. Let’s click on display to see if we found articles that answered our question.

We can look at #2, which seems to answer our question. Click on PDF to access the full text article.

Easy to read or to print out.

The articles without the “PDF” are still full text. Click on “Full Text” in the right margin

After clicking on “Request a copy”, this screen comes up. Fill in your name and address only and click “order”

Another way to reduce the number of articles is to put your search words in “Title” instead of “Keyword”. Back to searching…

The “Title” search brought the number of articles down from 809 to 409

Yet another way to limit your search is to use “limits”. The next two slides will show you how to do that.

Select an Age Group, or Type of Article, or Year or all together. Edit Limits will give you more options

At the top and bottom of this page, click on “Customize Limits” when you have made your selection(s)

On the next slide we have 1.combined the two search terms 2.put limits on the combination: English language, full text and 5 years This way we got 11 articles. If, when you are going through the articles, you did not find a very good one, then you can “go back” and change the limits until you have found what you were looking for

Happy searching! As always, the librarian is here to help. Ext t 5222 Rev. 11/15

None of our databases need logins/passwords here at work. If you are somewhere else, you will need the following logins and passwords: All databases, except and PubMed, have the same logins/password combination. Ebsco Databases (see below) Login/password s /cchlib12 or chester/county CINAHL Cochrane Library Health Business Elite MEDLINE Complete NHS Economic Evaluation Database Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Rehabilitation Reference Center Also applies for Discovery Tool to search all databases at once

Login/password: cou001/dccc06 or cou002/staff06 If these don’t work, usually because of heavy traffic, login with anything from cou003 all the way up to cou101. The password for all of these is changeme. OR you can use Username: cou999 Password: county. PubMed never needs a login/password. Search it also on the internet under