Systematic Approaches to Searching the Health Science Literature #3: Preparing for a Systematic Search

This video demonstrates a number of tasks reviewers usually do before performing a full-scale systematic search. For example, a preliminary search is usually conducted to find out if anyone else has done a review on the topic before. Reviewers also do "scoping" searches or "pearl-growing" searches to better understand existing primary studies on the topic. These techniques also help develop a list of search terms that can be used in the full-scale search. Finally this video gives examples of online databases, which reviewers may search depending on the subjects of their topics.View Tutorial Full Size (9 min 36 sec)Download tutorial (MP4 file, 12.63MB)
Source: Tutorials from the Yale Medical Library - Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Tags: Systematic Reviews Source Type: podcasts