Literature Review

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• Literature Review
• Dr Arun Prasad K.P
• Tutor, Dept of Matera Medica
• Govt. homoeopathic Medical College, Calicut.

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Literature Review
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Literature Review

• Purpose Components
• Sources of information
• Homoeopathic information - Problems
• Homoeopathic information - Solutions
• Finding a copy

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Literature Review - PURPOSE

• What we already know
• What is lacking
• Why study the problem
• What methods to use

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Literature Review - Components

• Searching for information
• Critical review
• Documentation

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Literature Review - Sources

• People
• Text Traditional / Online
• Primary / Non appraised sourcesResearch
  articles in Traditional / Online journals

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Literature Review - Sources

• Secondary /Pre-appraised sourcesSystematic
  Review, Meta-analyses etc in Individual journals
  / Books / Sites eg. Clinical Evidence,
  Cochrane library

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Literature Review - Sources

• Grey Literature
• Theses Dissertations
• Conference Proceedings
• Other Govt. Reports, Newspaper etc.

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Literature Search - Method

• References / Citations in
• Text books
• Journal Articles
• Index or Databases Traditional /
  OnlineMedline, EMBASE, SIGLE, IndMED

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Homoeopathic Information - Problems

• Scanty data from general medical databases
• MEDLINE has approx 17 million references to gt
  5000 life sciences journal articles
• Poor representation of Homoeopathy

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Homoeopathic Information - Problems

• Kleijnen J, Knipschild P. The comprehensiveness
  of MEDLINE and EMBASE computer searches. Searches
  for controlled trials of homeopathy, ascorbic
  acid for common cold and ginkgo biloba for
  cerebral insufficiency and intermittent
  claudication. Pharm Weekbl 19921431620

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Homoeopathic Information - Problems

• Results   For homoeopathy, ascorbic acid and
  ginkgo the proportion of all trials found by
  Medline was 17, 36 and 31 respectively and for
  Embase 13, 25 and 58 respectively.

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Homoeopathic Information - Solutions

• Homoeopathic Databases
• Homoeopathic libraries
• CAM Databases

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Homoeopathic Information - Solutions

• Homoeopathic Databases

• CAM Databases

• Hom-inform
• CCRH
• Provings
• HomBRex

• CAMbase
• AMED
• Cochrane collaboration CM Field

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Databases Hom-inform

• http//hominform.soutron.com
• Homoeopathic Library Information Services of
  British Homoeopathic Library
• Database of over 25000 article book references
  to Homoeopathy

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Databases Hom-inform
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Databases Hom-inform
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Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy

• CCRH Library www.ccrhindia.org
• CHLAS Quarterly
• CCRH Quarterly Bulletin - A Cumulative Index,
  Theses index etc

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Databases - CHLAS
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Databases Provings

• Dynamis School www.provings.com
• More than 1000 new provings
• can also than upload your own proving
• For each proving gives name of investigator,
  year, contact details

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Databases HomBRex

• HomBRexwww.carstens-stiftung.de/hombrex/index.php
  
• Database on Basic Research experiments on
  Homeopathy
• More than 900 original articles

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Databases CAM

• CAMbasehttp//cambase.dmz.uni-wh.de/opencam/start
  _en.html
• AMED www.bl.uk/collections/health/amed.html
• Cochrane collaboration CM Fieldwww.compmed.umm.ed
  u/cochrane_reviews.asp

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Finding a copy

• Medical / General Libraries
• Document delivery services
• Journal sites Free / Subscription
• Free Article collections www.freemedicaljournal
  s.com

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Review Documentation

• Traps to avoid
• Forgetting the purpose
• Trying to read everything
• Reading not writing
• Not referencing your notes

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Literature Review

• Problems in finding homoeopathic literature
• Importance of speciality homoeopathic CAM
  Databases, libraries etc.
• Need for document delivery services

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