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Advanced Literature Searching For Health
2.3 PICO Scenarios (Activity)
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Advanced Literature Searching For Health
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Module 1: Choosing Databases
1.1 What's in a Health Database?
1.2 Selecting Databases
1.3 Match that database (Activity)
1.4 The Evidence Based Practice (EBP) Hierarchy
1.5 Module 1 Summary
Module 2: Developing a search plan
2.1 Searchable questions
2.2 Breaking down a scenario
2.3 PICO Scenarios (Activity)
2.4 Synonyms
2.5 Truncation
2.6 Subject Headings
2.7 Using Subject Headings
2.8 Boolean
2.9 Module 2 summary
Module 3: Start searching
3.1 Entering your search terms
3.2 Reading your search
3.3 Module 3 summary
Module 4: Evaluating your results
4.1 Reviewing your search
4.2 Adjusting searches (Activity)
4.3 Module 4: Summary
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2.3 PICO Scenarios (Activity)
Activity 1
How would you break the following scenario down into a PICO search format?
Activity 2
How would you break the following scenario down into a PICO search format?
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