Searching EBSCO CINAHL

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Searching EBSCO CINAHL

• SHR Medical Library

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In this Session You Will Learn

• How to formulate an effective search using
• Learn how to effectively search CINAHL
• How to e-mail the results to yourself
• How to access the EBSCO CINAHL database from on
  and off site

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Introducing EBSCO via CINAHL

• What does CINAHL stand for?
• Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
• What is EBSCO?
• -creates the interface, how the database works
  and looks
• What does CINAHL cover?
• - indexes more than 1200 English language
  journals
• -covers 1982 to present
• - updated every other month

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Difference Between PubMED/MEDLINE and CINAHL

• MEDLINE
• Coverage 1950s - present
• Focused on Biomedical Journal Literature
• Uses MeSH, Medical Subject Headings

• CINAHL
• Coverage 1982 - present
• Focused on nursing and allied health literature
• Uses CINAHL Subject Headings

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What are Subject Headings?

• Terms used for certain subjects or topics
• provide consistency
• helps the searcher to be more precise

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Formulating a Search Strategy
Develop the question
Identify needed information
Search Strategy
Search for information
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Subject Heading Example

• Think of all the different words to describe a
  four wheeled, motorized vehicle use to transport
  people and goods on roads.
• Car, auto, automobile, station wagons, van, SUV,
  Chevy, truck..
• Term Automobile would retrieve articles that used
  the various terms

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CINAHL Headings

• About 70 of the CINAHL headings were adopted
  from MeSH used in MEDLINE
• Additional nursing specific subject headings were
  added. i.e.) Surgical Nursing

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What is a Keyword?

• keywords are the everyday language terms
• using keywords searches words found in the
  title/abstract/text of the articles
• returns greatest amount of results, but with low
  relevancy
• use when terms do not map to CINAHL headings

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Tools for building a search Boolean Operators
AND, OR, NOT

• AND is exclusive must have both terms
• OR is inclusive- must have either idea

Chickenpox
Diagnosis
Chickenpox AND Diagnosis
Chickenpox
Diagnosis
Chickenpox OR Diagnosis
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Tools for building a search Boolean Operators
AND, OR, NOT

• NOT - is exclusive, must have first term not
  the second

Chickenpox
Diagnosis
Chickenpox NOT Diagnosis
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Formulating a Search Strategy
Develop the question
Identify needed information
Search Strategy
Search for information
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Tips for Formulating Your Search

• 1. Write down your search as a sentence. and note
  the main concepts/keywords e.g.
• I need to find information on female nurse
  burnout and costs to the health care system in
  Canada and the United States.
• 2. List the terms that related to your concepts.
  Consult the Thesaurus/Subject Headings if
  available.
• 3. Think about how the terms could be connected
  (AND, OR, NOT)

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Connecting to EBSCO CINAHL On Site
Step One
From Infonet Click on Medical Library
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Connecting to EBSCO CINAHL On Site
Step Two
From SHR Medical Library page click on Databases
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Connecting to EBSCO CINAHL On Site
Step Three
From Database Page, choose CINAHL Plus with Full
Text
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EBSCO CINAHL Advanced Search Interface
Click on CINAHL Headings button to reach the
Thesaurus
If checked will suggest CINAHL headings for your
search term
Click Search History to combine your different
searches
Click Refine Search for more limit options
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CINAHL Headings
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Enter search term breast cancer Check Suggest
Subject Terms box
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Sample Search CINAHL Headings
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Click on hyperlinked term Breast Neoplasms
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Sample Search CINAHL Headings
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Scope shows what term is used for
Explode will expand the search to include
narrower terms
Major Concept will reduce the search to only
subject headings that are major topics of the
articles
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CINAHL Tree
Main Term
Narrower Terms
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Sample Search CINAHL Headings
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Step 1 Choose Explode
Step 2 Click Add to search
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Sample Search CINAHL Headings
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Click Search
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Sample Search CINAHL Headings
Note More results because we chose to Explode
our search term Results 13957
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If we had chosen Major Concept, we would have had
fewer results Results 11020
Search completed on January 22, 2007 results
may vary on different dates
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Combining Searches
Exercise

• Search Term One Common Cold
• Search Term Two Vitamin C
• Remember to use CINAHL Terms

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Combining Searches Search History
2. From drop down menu choose AND, OR, NOT and
then click ADD to send searches to search box
1. Place check beside searches you want to combine
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Refining Your Search Limits
Click on Refine Search
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Refining Your Search Limits
Common Limits English Language, Publication
Year, Publication Type, Special Interest
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Keyword Searching in CINAHL
Repeat the search, but only use keywords. This
means you do not check the Suggest Subject Terms
box.
In this case, we get fewer results then when
searching with Subject Terms
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Evidence Based Care Sheets
From Advanced Search Screen click on Evidence
Based Care Sheets
Browse by typing topic into search box
Or, browse through list for topic
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Care Plans, Practice Guidelines Nursing
Interventions

• Click on the Refine Search tab and make selection
  from publication type.
• To choose more than one hold down the Ctrl key

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Marking Working With Citations
2. Click on Folder has items to view marked
citation(s)
1. Click on Add beside desired citation(s)
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Marking Working With Citations
You can choose to Print, E-mail, Save or Export
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Requesting Articles
E-mail Your Article Requests To library_at_saskatoon
healthregion.ca
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EBSCO CINAHL Searches
Tips

• Complete a search for one term/CINAHL heading at
  a time (then if needed search by keyword)
• Combine Searches using Search History
• Start Broad Explode terms

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Connecting to EBSCO CINAHL Off Site

• Must request password and username from Library
  Staff
• Contact library staff by e-mail at
  library.saskatoonhealthregion.ca or by Phone at
  306-655-8228

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Session Recap

• You Have Learned
• How to formulate a search strategy
• How to connect to CINAHL
• How to search CINAHL
• How to e-mail citations to yourself

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Need More Help?

• Dont Hesitate to Call or E-mail the SHR Medical
  Library Staff!
• E-mail library_at_saskatoonhealthregion.ca
• Phone
• 306-655-8228