National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools

Since you attended the workshop, have you tried out any of the searching tips?
eg - health-evidence?

- Systematic reviews on Pubmed (Clinical Queries)?


Does anyone want an on-line refresher??


Donna

I work in Public Health in Victoria, BC. I have used the Health-Evidence website to search for information and I have shared it with others. I found what I was looking for in one case and in another, I did not. I looked in the National Guidelines Clearinghouse as well.

I believe the second query was less "public health" focussed and more of an uncommon and specific topic which was why I was unable to find anything.

I look forward to using these sites for searching on other topics in future.
Betty Poag

Thanks Betty

As you know, www.heath-evidence.ca is a great resource of all systemaic reviews relevant to public health in Canada. The staff acutally read, rate for quality, and sometimes even write a structured abstract about the review. All is free!

www.health-evidence.ca

Re Searching
Betty posted:

"I looked in the National Guidelines Clearinghouse as well. I believe the second query was less "public health" focussed and more of an uncommon and specific topic which was why I was unable to find anything"

-this is common -guidelines are usually large topic areas, and less focused just to public health. If you do not find it in www.health-evidence.ca, you might next try PubMed clinical queries.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed

When you are on that page, on the left you will see a button called "Clinical Queries" Click that

You will see that you can search then by therapy (a clinical term, but public health type interventions are here), or several other types of questions.

-let me know how that goes!

Donna






Donna