Using Advanced Google Search Techniques to Locate Practice Guidelines
Contents
- Objectives
- Clinical Case
- Finding a Relevant Guideline
- Alternate terms for your concepts?
- Advanced Google Scholar Search Techniques
- Use Quotes to Define Multi-Word Terms
- Use OR to Join Alternate Terms
- Use intitle: to Indicate That a Term Must be in the Title
- Use site: to indicate website or type of site of interest.
- Place the Most Important Terms at the Beginning of the Search
- Use Google Search Operators/Punctuation
- Do the results appear relevant?
- Use a Minus Sign in Front of a Term That Must Not be Present
- Save Your Search Strategy
- Google Settings
- Critically Evaluate the Guidelines You Find
- Your take-home assignment