American Association of Endodontists: Workshop on Evidence-Based Dentistry & Endodontics

What is a Searchable Question?

• The Well-Built Clinical Question: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/ebm/Question.htm
  Connie Schardt (schar005@mc.duke.edu), Duke University Medical Center Library and Jill Mayer (jill_mayer@med.unc.edu), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Science Library

• Worksheet for examining your question and building your strategy:
  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/consult/FRIARform.pdf

Additional Question Development Resources

• Designing An Answerable Question: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/Miner/guides/ebhctut1.html
  Miner Library. ©Copyright University of Rochester Medical Center, 1999.

• Focusing Clinical Questions: http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/focusquest.html

• Richardson WS, Wilson MC, Nishikawa J, Hayward RSA. The well-built clinical question: a key to evidence-based decisions. ACP Journal Club. Nov-Dec 1995;123;A12.

Databases & Searching

Databases

• Medline: Ovid (UM-MEDSEARCH) & PubMed
  • University of Michigan Electronic Journals List: http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/ejournals/
• EMBASE
• The Cochrane Library
• Web Of Science

• AADS: Sample PICO Search: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/consult/ebdtest.html

Textword Searching Example

• NIH-CDC: Caries: Hedges: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/consult/NIDCR/hedges.html

Truncation Example

• NIH-CDC: Caries: Annotated Hedge: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/consult/NIDCR/hedganno.html

Applied Endodontics Examples

• Endodontics Therapy/Treatment Hedge: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/consult/endohedge.txt
• Sample Search and Results for Outcomes of Endodontic Treatment: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/consult/EndoOutcomes1.txt
• Sample Search and Results for Fixed Bridge (As an Alternative to Endodontic Treatment): http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/consult/EndoAlt1.txt

• Medline Glossary
  [When doing a Medline search, what does it mean to "explode" or "map" a term? How do "Limits" work? What is a "Boolean search"? Etcetera.]
  http://www.med.ualberta.ca/ebm/medglos.htm

Hedges

• World Wide Web-Based EBM Hedges: http://www.mssm.edu/library/ebm/ebmhedges.htm
  by Jean Sullivant, Mount Sinai

• Evidence-Based Filters for Ovid Medline: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/Miner/Educ/Expertsearch.html
  by Kathryn Nesbit (Katy_Nesbit@urmc.rochester.edu)

Search Strategies

• The Literature Search: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/ebm/literat.htm

• Additional EBM Strategies for Searching Medline: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/ebm/search.htm
  Connie Schardt (schar005@mc.duke.edu), Duke University Medical Center Library and Jill Mayer (jill_mayer@med.unc.edu), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Science Library

• Study Design [What are the different types of study designs and which type of design is best for which type of question.]: http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/studies.htm

• Librarian's Working Group. Why Finding "Evidence" In Medline can be Frustrating.: http://www.ebmny.org/medline1.html

• Librarian's Working Group. Things to Keep in Mind When Searching Medline: http://www.ebmny.org/medline2.html

Recommended Evidence-Based Dentistry Resources

• Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry: http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/cebd/.
  See also Derek's:
  • Evidence-Based Dentistry Journal: http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/cebd/ebdj.htm,
    now available with new issues four times a year!
  • Evidence-Based Links: http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/cebd/eblink.htm
  • EBD Training & Tools: http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/cebd/eblink.htm#anchor157747

• Cochrane Collaboration: Main page: http://www.cochrane.org
  How to Subscribe: http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane/revabstr/ccsales.htm
  Pricing: http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane/revabstr/ccsales.htm#InetPrice
  

• Evidence-Based Dentistry Resources: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/consult/ebd.html

• HealthWeb: Dentistry: Clinical: Evidence Based Dentistry: http://www.lib.umich.edu/hw/dent/clinical/eb.html
  by Pat Anderson (pfa@umich.edu).

• HealthWeb: Evidence Based Health Care: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/health/hw/ebhc/
  by Jo Dorsch (jod@uic.edu).

• Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center: http://www.ebmny.org/

Training Kits, Handouts, and Documents (Web-Based)

• **Introductory EBM Learning Module: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/ebm/index.htm
  by Jill Mayer (jill_mayer@unc.edu) and Connie Schardt.

• Evidence Based Medicine: http://www.mc.duke.edu/mclibrary/respub/guides/ebm.html
  by Duke University Medical Center.

• Evidence-Based Medicine Toolkit: http://www.med.ualberta.ca/ebm/ebm.htm
  by Jeanette.Buckingham@UAlberta.Ca, Bruce.Fisher@UAlberta.Ca, Duncan.Saunders@Ualberta.ca

• Retrieving Evidence ... for Clinical Effectiveness: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/reswce/reswce.htm

• Why Finding "Evidence" in Medline Can Be Frustrating: http://www.ebmny.org/medline1.html

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