In this tutorial, you will practice searching the evidence-based resources listed in your assignment.
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Research question:
What is the efficacy of a preoperative chlorhexidine bath to reduce the incidence of surgical site infection?
Which terms are the best to enter in to the search box?
To your right, you will see the NRSG 316 library guide. Under the Evidence Resource links, located on the left-hand side of the guide, click on Cochrane. If you are off-campus, you will need to log in with your UNMC Net ID.
Now, enter chlorhexidine bath surgical site infection into the search box and click Go.
You should have one result. Click on the title to open the review. It will open up in a new window or tab.
Remember, Systematic Reviews review several studies.
Where can you find out how many studies were included in the review?
In the abstract, look at the Results section.
How many studies were included in this review?
Note: Cochrane provides 3 different PDFs. The Standard version will suit the needs of your assignment.
Click here to return to the library guide.
Click on National Guideline Clearinghouse.
Enter chlorhexidine bath surgical site infection in to the search box and click the Search button.
Are there any guidelines on your topic?
Your first result should be "Surgical site infection: prevention and treatment of surgical site infection." Click on the title to open the summary.
Note the Bibliographic Source, which is located below the title within the summary. This citation can be used, along with the URL of the guideline, in your bibliography. You may need to make some modifications in order to adhere to APA format.
Some guidelines are available in full-text, beyond the initial summary. Click on the Related Content tab. You will see a link to a 142 page document.
Now, let's move on to the journal literature. We will first search CINAHL, a primarily nursing literature database.
Click here to return to the NRSG 316 Library Guide
Click on CINAHL.
Three search boxes are available. It can be helpful to put one term or phrase in each box.
First box: chlorhexidine Second box: bath Third box: surgical site infection
Click Search.
Remember, these literature databases attach subjects or tags to each article. It is often helpful to use those subjects instead of your initial search terms.
Look at the subjects in your results.
Do you see a subject that is phrased differently than your search terms?
Is there another term or phrase for bath?
Is there another term or phrase for chlorhexidine?
Is there another term or phrase for surgical site infection?
Now that you have adjusted your search statement, click on Search again. Your results are now optimized for your topic.
CINAHL gives you two varieties of full-text options. If you see a PDF Full Text link, you can get the PDF immediately. That is because the library subscribes to some journals through EBSCO, which then seamlessly integrates the files in to the results. If there is not a PDF link, you will see a link labeled Check here for Full Text. Clicking on that link to search the library's other journal collections.
Let's search our last resource, PubMed MEDLINE.
Click here to return to the 316 library guide.
Once there, click on PubMed MEDLINE.
You can also search MEDLINE via EBSCO, but PubMed has a special tool that allows you to focus in on evidence-based articles.
Now that you are in PubMed, click on the Clinical Queries link, which is listed under PubMed Tools.
Type our original search terms chlorhexidine bath surgical site infection in to the search box and click Search.
You will see three columns of results, representing different sets of evidence articles. In each column, only 5 articles are shown. Scroll to the bottom of the first column and click the See All.
Once you see the full list of articles, scan your results. To read the abstract and access the full-text button, click on the title. From there, to see if the library has the full-text, click on the button labeled GetIt!@UNMC.
You have now finished the exercises! Please wait as your classmates finish and we will briefly review some pertinent information before you start searching for information on your topics.
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