A Librarian’s experience searching for evidence for the Western Australian

Group for Evidence Informed Healthcare Practice WAGEIHP

Terena Solomons Research Librarian WAGEIHP & Librarian University of Western Australia

Western Australian Group for Evidence Based Healthcare Practice

http://healthsciences.curtin.edu.au/schools-and-departments/nursing-midwifery-paramedicine/research/wceihp/ WHAM – Wound Healing And Management node – Evidence Summaries

“Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in reducing grief

experienced by family carers of people with dementia : a systematic review”

Session outline

• WHAM Evidence Summaries –wound care topics • Systematic Review - dementia topic • Text mining tools for identifying keywords and MeSH headings • Databases & Grey literature sources • Search Filters • Documenting the search strategy process • Skills and knowledge gained

WHAM Wound Healing And Management Evidence Summaries

• What is the best available evidence regarding green tea for managing wound odor?

• What is the efficacy of acetic acid / citric acid in relation to anti-microbial

action and wound healing?

• What is the best available evidence in the effectiveness of tea tree oil preparations

used for managing wounds?

• What is the best available evidence regarding banana leaf dressing / potato peel dressings for wound management?

• What is the best available evidence regarding the use of turmeric in wound

management?

Tools to identify Keywords and MeSH

• Google & Google Scholar • Looking at MeSH headings from key articles • Citation analysis – Scopus & Web of Science – who has cited whom • Scope Notes in Medline, Embase, CINAHL

Text matching tools • MeSH on Demand • PubMed Reminer

EndNote’s 5 star rating column is used to indicate JBI Level of Evidence Research Notes field is used to record 5a, 5b, 5c etc https://joannabriggs.org/assets/docs/approach/JBI-Levels-of-evidence_2014.pdf

MeSH Subject headings were exported from EndNote to a Word table for the for the Systematic review “ “Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in reducing grief experienced by family carers of people with dementia.”

What is the best available evidence regarding the effectiveness of

polyhexamethylen biguanide (PHMB) for managing wounds?

Concept 1 – PHMB • Exp biguanides

• Exp Anti-infective agents, local

• Exp Antiseptics

• PHMB.ti,ab. OR

• polyhexamethylene biguanide.ti,ab. OR

• polihexanide.ti,ab. OR

• polyaminopropyl biguanide.ti,ab.kw

• Antiseptic$.ti,ab.kw

• Lavasept.ti,ab.kw OR

• Serasept.ti,ab.kw OR Kerlix.ti,ab Excilon.ti,ab Telfa.ti,ab XCellAE Cellulose Wound Dressing Antimicrobial.ti,ab

Concept 2 – Wounds • Exp wounds and injuries

• Exp wound healing

• Exp wound infection

• Exp surgical wound infection

• Exp leg ulcer

• Exp pressure ulcer

• Exp diabetic foot

• Exp foot ulcer

• Exp skin ulcer

• Wound$.ti,ab,kw

• (bedsore$ or bed sore$)ti,ab,kw

• (pressure ulcer$ or pressure sore$).ti,ab.kw

• (decubitus ulcer$ or decubitus sore$).ti,ab.kw

• (leg ulcer$ or foot ulcer$)ti,ab.kw

• Laceration$.ti,ab.kw

• Abrasion$.ti.ab.kw

Text mining tool- PubMed ReMiner

• http://hgserver2.amc.nl/cgi-bin/miner/miner2.cgi

• Great tool for identifying key authors, MeSH headings and journals that publish on a particular topic.

PubMed ReMiner

Text mining tool - MeSH on Demand

• https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/MeSHonDemand

• Paste in text from a protocol - abstract

• Software text matches and identifies MeSH Terms within the text

• No human intervention or evaluation

• Provides a list of 10 citations related to the text submitted

Databases searched for Wound ES & Dementia SR

• Cochrane, DARE

• Medline, PubMed

• CINAHL

• Embase

• PsycINFO

• Web of Science

• Scopus

• Science Direct

• Informit health databases AMI, ApaisHealth etc

• Joanna Briggs EBP database

• AMED OVID - Allied and Complementary Medicine

• Global Health OVID

• Natural Medicines

• COS Conference Papers Index

• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

Grey Literature

• WHO International trials register

http://www.who.int/ictrp/search/en/

• Open Grey http://www.opengrey.eu/

• World Wide Sciencehttps://worldwidescience.org/

• Open DOAR http://www.opendoar.org/

• EThOS http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do

Grey Literature Low resource countries

• Bioline - http://www.bioline.org.br/

• LILACS Literature from Latin America & Caribbean http://lilacs.bvsalud.org/en

• African Journals Online https://www.ajol.info/index.php/index/search

Search Filters

• Webinar on Search Filters by Julie Glanville

• https://eahilcpd.wordpress.com/webinar-toolkit/search-filters-what-are-they-good-for/

• CareSearch Dementia, Grief & Bereavement Filters

• https://www.caresearch.com.au/Caresearch/tabid/2799/Default.aspx

• Flinders Filtershttp://www.flinders.edu.au/clinical-change/research/flinders-filters/flinders-filters.cfm

Documenting the Search Process

Skills & knowledge gained working for WAGEIHP

• Honed search skills in a variety of platforms

• Detective skills in sourcing full text articles

• Use of text mining tools

• Up-skilled in EndNote & sharing two EndNote libraries with researchers at the same time.

• Google Translate for foreign language articles

Authorship

Wound Practice and Research Vol.25 No.3 September 2017

Contact details

Terena Solomons Research Librarian WAGEIHP (Mon & Fri) t.solomons@curtin.edu.au Librarian, University of Western Australia (Tues – Thurs) terena.solomons@uwa.edu.au