Week 4 discussion comment.

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CINAHL

CINAHL is an SU subscription-only resource that offers full text access to 336 scholarly journals and indexes over 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Indexed journals do not provide access to full-text. Just because it is indexed in does not mean the library has full-text access to the journal. SU can always request articles for students via Interlibrary Loan, but the service is not instantaneous

· Look at the Major Subject Heading in the Full Record

· Use the Limits Feature:

· Example: Publication Type=Systematic Review

· Try the CINAHL Heading search:

Keyword search:

Hypertension,

Lifestyle changes,

Medication

Limits:

Full text

CINAHL Heading search:

Limits:

 3,523

 This searched yielded a lot of information. This site allows you to put in key words in to search.

PubMed

PubMed is a free health science citation & abstracts index from the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

· Look at MeSH Terms in Full Record

· Use the Limits Feature:

· Examples: Article Type=Meta-Analysis; Age=All Adult

· Look for the open access Free articles!

Keyword search:

Limits:

 Hypertension

Lifestyle changes

Medication

MESH search:

Limits:

5 years

 Initial search:

1,895

After limits:

713

 This site I was able to type in all key words and perform a search on them. It yielded a lot of information. All keys words are highlighted.

Cochrane Library

Cochrane Library provides access to the Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews. Full text of reviews are subscription only. Index summaries are a public resource. Indexed journals do not provide access to full-text. Just because it is indexed in does not mean the library has full-text access to the journal. SU can always request articles for students via Interlibrary Loan, but the service is not instantaneous

· Use the Simple Search and the Advance Search Features

· Allows you to search with MeSH Terms

· Check out the New Reviews

 Browse reviews by topic

Keyword search:

Hypertension lifestyle changes

Hypertension medication

Limits:

MESH search:

Limits:

Cochrane review 18

1095 Trails

129 Cochrane reviews

Cochrane Protocol 3

Trails 12568

Editorial 1

Clinical answers 1

 This search yielded a lot of information that was very useful. This site has a lot of evidence based trials and reviews.

Dynamed

· Use the Simple Search and the Advance Search Features

· Allows you to search with MeSH Terms

· Check out the New Reviews

  Browse reviews by topic

Keyword search:

 Hypertension and lifestyle changes

Also browse by:

 Hypertension and medication

Initial: 

108

Second search:

2729

 This site had a lot more information on medication than lifestyle changes.

TRIP Database

TRIP is a clinical search engine to locate publicly available clinical evidence.

· Limit to:

· Systematic Reviews

· Guidelines-US

Keyword search:

Hypertension and lifestyle changes

Hypertension and medication

Limits:

 14,271

119,769

 This site has a lot of pertaining to this subject. It has case study reviews, evidence based information and clinical guidelines that are very useful for this case.

SU Library Search

· Library Search is setup just like an EBSCO

· The Library even has a specialized PICOT search setup in Library Search—must go to Advance search to get to PICOT option

 Search using picot question: In men the age of 30-50 with hypertension (P), how does lifestyle changes (I) compared to medication use (C) affect their blood pressure (O) in a one-year period (T).

1,740,368

The feature of being able to search by the picot question is very neat

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