Name: Shania Laine Cabucos

Year & Section: BSN 2-E Date of Submission: February 08, 2020

1. The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) is

generally thought to be a good source to search when conducting a review of
qualitative evidence. Case studies have suggested that using CINAHL could be
essential for reviews of qualitative studies covering topics in the nursing field,
but it is unclear whether this can be extended more generally to reviews of
qualitative studies in other topic areas. The reason why Beth decided to use
PubMed because it is said that ten searches were performed in PubMed using
a variety of available search features. The searches were repeated in Google
Scholar to approximate a user's approach to those same topics in that search
engine. PubMed searches a well-defined set of journals, while Google Scholar
includes resources beyond journals and the exact scope of coverage is not
extensively described. Because the systems are not searching identical data, the
results are often different. Google Scholar does not offer the number and
extent of special searching and limiting features available in PubMed. One of
the most advantageous features of searching PubMed is the ability to utilize the
MeSH vocabulary, as Google Scholar does not currently implement controlled
vocabulary searching mechanisms. PubMed also offers substantially more
features that allow searchers to narrow their retrieval to citations from clearly
identified sources, as detailed in NLM's List of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE
and List of Serials Indexed for Online Users. PubMed, which is freely available, is
a search system for health information.
2. The benefits that Beth's gain in using the MeSH term is that MeSH are often
applied retrospectively to PubMed records so you run the risk of missing the
more recent articles if you search on MeSH alone, because MeSH will
however tell you what the content of the article is about, conversely your
search term may appear in an abstract yet it may not be the main focus of
the article. MeSH aim to capture differences in author terminology so if you
fail to search on one synonym you may miss a relevant article. Also, MeSH
sometimes are not always available for all concepts, example of new and
emerging technologies. For a SR use both mesh and freetext to minimize the
risk of missing anything. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a
comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing journal
articles and books in the life sciences. It serves as a thesaurus that facilitates
searching. MeSH is a controlled vocabulary thesaurus of indexing terms
arranged in a hierarchy, MeSH terms lower in the hierarchy are more specific
or narrower than those higher in the hierarchy. Indexing MEDLINE citations
with MeSH terms provides a consistent way to find citations, even when
authors use different terms for the same concept. MeSH searching and found
that text word searches were more sensitive (retrieved a greater number of
relevant citations) and that MeSH searching was more specific (retrieved
fewer irrelevant citations). Text word searching may have been more
sensitive because some concepts important to the search used. by becoming
familiar with MeSH terms for their clinical practice area, physical therapists
can harness the powerful MeSH indexing feature of MEDLINE and improve
the efficiency of their searches.

3. In the results that Beth found, she started with the 2015 article “ Zinc
supplementation and the effects on metabolic status in gestational
diabetes The information in this citation indicates to meet her needs because
it is align to the conditions of her patients and by that, Beth decided to start
with this article, because the citation indicates that this research article is
relevant to her area of research, it is recent, and it reports on clinical trials
with human patients.