| The literature: How do you know if it is good, bad, or mediocre? | |||
| Use Your Time Wisely | |||
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Connect with your HonorHealth Librarian, pronto. You may be searching for a topic, narrowing down an idea, or performing a literature search. We can help with all of that! |
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Do a literature search with your librarian, and then read the literature. Use your librarian to chase down the cutting edge, the historical, and other elusive resources. Settling for the results of a single literature search, or the easy-to-find, may limit mastery of your topic. A librarian can add certainty to your work. |
| Read Widely, Evaluate Carefully | ||
| Your literature search is more than finding and reading articles. You need to differentiate between low- and high-quality studies, and appreciate differences among study designs. | ||
| How to Read a Paper. Links to 10 articles to guide your exploration and laying your groundwork. (Brit Med J) | ||
| User's Guide to the Medical Literature (JAMA Network) | ||
| Critical Appraisal Tools. Worksheets will save you time and help you identify questionable study designs, processes, data, and conclulsions. (CEBM). ► The Top Tips section could have you seeing your work in a whole new way! | ||
| A simple method for evaluating the clinical literature (Fam Pract Med) | ||
| Understanding synthesis (systematic) review articles (video, 2 min) From CIS, a company created to teach information mastery to medical residents and providers. |
| More about Research Lit searching & Projects | More about EBP Literature searches & projects (to go to "The EBP Project" page.) | More about QI Literature Searching and QI Projects |