CMHL1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cochrane Library, Scopus, Hypnotherapy
5 Aug 2018
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Chapter two: asking questions and searching for evidence. Informal: almost surfing the internet to keep current and/or to satisfy your own curiosity. The purpose here is less to influence patient care directly than to identify the existing body of research that has already addressed a problem and clarify the gaps in knowledge which require further research. To do an effective job, consultation with a professional (e. g a health librarian) is appropriate. Primary research: an original piece of research from a single study. Secondary research: reports (cid:858)sy(cid:374)thesised(cid:859) fi(cid:374)di(cid:374)gs and usually takes the form of a literature review. Quite useful to assist you to quickly understand what is already known about a topic: examined multiple primary research papers and summarised them, combined findings to provide strong evidence on which to base practice. String search: a list of words or phrases that when combined are used to search for a specific piece of information contained in a database.
