Abstract
OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of Chapter 6, you will be able to:
■ Use common health and social sciences online search resources for retrieving citations to answer systematic review questions ■ Define point-of-care resources and identify their role for researching practice-based questions
■ Define grey literature and explore its role in systematic review research
■ Use various search techniques such as Citation Chasing and Hand Searching
IMPORTANT POINTS
■ Searches that make use of a database's controlled vocabulary or subject headings/terms allow investigators a chance for more accuracy and/or sensitivity for retrieval of more relevant citations.
■ Reviewers can expand on or tailor their foreground question and text words or key words by performing preliminary searches in filtered resources such as Clinical Evidence by BMJ Publishing Group and Dynamed from EBSCO Publishing.
■ Setting up search alerts if available in searched databases can facilitate keeping an ongoing systematic review research project as up-to-date as possible prior to publication.
■ All significant results from literature searches should be collected and organized using a bibliographic citation management tool, for example, EndNote from Thomson Reuters.