Looking for Evidence? Call Joanna!

SCAPAN 2013 Fall Conference10/19/2013Lisa Antley-Hearn, MLISllantleyhearn@lexhealth.org

The Joanna Briggs Institute

Established in 1996, the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) is an international collaboration involving nursing, medical & allied health researchers, clinicians, academics & quality managers across 40 countries in every continent.

Access to the database is included in your ASPAN membership – BEST PERK EVER for a professional organization!

What’s in the database?

Evidence Summaries — Literature reviews that summarize existing international literature on common healthcare interventions and activities

Evidence–Based Recommended Practices — Database of procedures based on the best available evidence, that describe and/or recommend practice on various clinical topics

Best Practice Information Sheets — Series of information guideline sheets produced specifically for practicing health professionals

Systematic Reviews — Comprehensive systematic reviews of international research literature completed by trained JBI reviewers

Consumer Information Sheets — Standardized summaries, designed just for consumers of healthcare (resident/client, relatives, care provider)

Systematic Review Protocols — Documents background information and the plan for conducting a systematic review

Technical Reports — Documentation of all aspects of the development of Best Practice Information Sheets

Things to watch for….

Spelling - since the information comes from all over the world, various spellings may be used (e.g., “tumor” & “tumour”; “maneuver” & “manoeuvre”)

Synonyms (e.g., “leprosy” & “Hanson’s disease”; “postpartum depression (PPD)” & “postnatal depression (PND)”

Better to avoid abbreviations altogether Uses the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) from the US

National Library of Medicine OVID will kick you out of the database after a certain length of

time – simply go back in.

From the “Research” dropdown menu, choose “Joanna Briggs Institute”

Here, just type in a subject and presssearch

Set up your own account with OvidSP One page form Choose a username and password (your ASPAN

username and password will do)

We have 74 “hits”, so we’ll limit those.

Click on the item you wish; to choose more than one,hold down the Ctrl key and select all you need.

Limiting to “surgicalservices” brought usdown to 17. Note theage of this document.

Evidence Summary….. Short, to the point – this one is three pages Gives “just the facts” information for your topic.

Best Practice Information Sheets…. More information than found on the Evidence

Summary Gives a discussion of the topic

Systematic Review… Entire article on the subject, a full discussion

reviewing other medical articles Much longer (this one is 40 pages)

Evidence-Based Recommended Practice…. Gives the “How to” for the topic you’re researching,

as well as the information you find in the Evidence Summary

One of the older items I’ve found in Joanna Briggs

Consumer Health Information NOT limited to a 6th grade reading level, and may have

alternative spellings/synonyms In some cases, may be better for family or caregivers of

patients

If you click on “More” you get more options: Delete that line of the search Save the search so you can come back to it later Auto-Alert will email you if there’s an update to your search RSS Feed, if you use RSS for other items

PubMed Medline

Free on the WWW: http://pubmed.gov/ Developed and maintained by the National Center

for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Contains over 23 million citations from biomedical literature, life-science journals, and books

Citations are from all over the world, in many languages

When you start search-ing PubMed, the drop-down menu will give you options, similar tothose in Google’s “I’mfeeling lucky”

FILTERS, sameas LIMITS

Searching MeSH: enter your topic and click “Add to search builder” on right, then click “Search PubMed”

Once you’ve added one term to thesearch builder, you can add another;

just search the new topic, and “Add tosearch builder” with AND or OR