searching to inform your decisions
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Welcome!Searching
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Welcome!Searching
www.healthevidence.org to Inform Your Decisions
The Health Evidence Team
Maureen Dobbins
Scientific Director
Heather HussonManager
Susannah WatsonProject Coordinator
Robyn TraynorPublications Consultant
Research Assistants
Yaso Gowrinathan
Kelly Graham
Kristin Read
Emily Sully
Alice Wang
StudentsReza Yousefi Nooraie PhD candidate)
Jennifer YostAssistant Professor
What is www.healthevidence.org?
Evidence
Decision Making
inform
CommunityHealth Issues,Local Context
ResearchEvidence
Public HealthResources
Community and Political Preferences
and Actions
Public HealthExpertise
A Model for Evidence-Informed Decision Making
National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools. (revised 2012). A Model for Evidence-Informed Decision-Making in Public Health (Fact Sheet). [http://www.nccmt.ca/pubs/FactSheet_EIDM_EN_WEB.pdf]
Stages in the process of Evidence-Informed Public Health
National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools. Evidence-Informed Public Health. [http://www.nccmt.ca/eiph/index-eng.html]
6S Pyramid
National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools. Search Pyramid. [http://www.nccmt.ca/eiph/search-eng.html]
Sample Search #1
• Are community based ‘challenges or contests’ an effective way to create behaviour change in community members?
• Are school based ‘challenges or contests’ an effective way to create behaviour change in students?
• P• I challenges OR contests
• C• O behaviour change
Considerations
• Searching with term ‘challenge’ produces all abstracts containing the word ‘challenge’ (e.g., “... The challenge of this review is ....”)
– Will produce greater, less relevant results
• Identify synonym terms that may produce more precise results, e.g., competition
• Use ‘Advanced Search’ limits to narrow a large results set
– Setting = community– Setting = school
‘competition’ = 14 results
+ setting ‘community ‘= 7 results
+ setting ‘school’ = 6 results
Sample Search #2
• Are physical activity interventions effective for falls prevention in adults 55+
• Are home safety interventions effective for falls prevention in adults 55+
• P Adults 55+
• I
• C• O Decrease in falls
Considerations
• Health Evidence database population category is 60+ – Modify population in question to 60+, or search for BOTH adults
(20-59) AND senior (60+) age categories and screen more results to capture the 55-60 age range
• To capture variations of ‘falls prevention’, use wildcard– fall* prevent*– This will search (fall OR falls OR fallen OR falling) AND (prevent
OR preventing OR prevention) – all variants of each term
• Use ‘Advanced Search’ Limits to narrow large results sets
– Start with a broad search, and continue to apply additional limits to create a smaller, more relevant results set
– Prioritize strong quality reviews published within the last 5 years
‘fall* prevent*’ Limit ‘population > Senior 60+’ = 76 results
+ topic ‘physical activity’ = 26 resultsLimit ‘review quality > strong’Limit ‘publication date 2010-2014’ = 5 results
+ topic ‘injury prevention/safety’ = 63 results + setting ‘home’ = 41 results
Limit ‘review quality > strong’Limit ‘publication date 2010-2014’ = 10 results
Sample Search #3
• What types of interventions are effective in helping improve preconception health of women?
• P Reproductive-age women
• I
• C• O Improved preconception health
Considerations
• Identify synonym terms to capture all potentially relevant results, e.g., ‘pre-pregnancy’
• Use quotes for multiple-term phrases, e.g., “pre-pregnancy”
– Quotes return results that only contain the phrase within “”
• Use wildcard to capture variations of ‘preconception’– preconception*
– This will search (preconception OR preconceptional)
• Use ‘Advanced Search’ Limits to narrow a large results set
– Prioritize strong quality reviews published within the last 5 years
‘preconception* OR “pre-pregnancy”’ = 15 results
Limit ‘review quality > strong’Limit ‘publication date 2010-2014’ = 4 results
Beyond the ‘SEARCH’
Other resources on www.healthevidence.org• Upcoming & archived webinars
• EIDM support – Practice tools– Face-to-face knowledge broker consultation
