2PART OF 5AS (ACQUIRE)

FINDING EVIDENCE
 LOS OF LECTURE

• SEARCH STRATEGIES

• FINDING EVIDENCE OF INTERVENTIONS

 Acquire: Obtain the Evidence with Searches

Where to find the research evidence, once the foreground question is developed?

•More experienced colleagues

•Textbooks
• Internet/World Wide Web
• Specific Journal Subscriptions
• Internet Sources for Medical Information
 Acquire: Obtain the Evidence with Searches

Internet/World Wide Web

There are many Web-based sources from which to obtain clinical research. A few evidence-based
sites are:

1.Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

2.TRIP database (Turning Research into Practice)
3.PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence resource)
4.Current clinical trials at www.clinicaltrials.gov.
5.Medline/PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi)
6.Medline Plus(www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html),
7.Ovid (www.ovid.com), which provides a searchable database of medical, scientific, and academic research
information.
8.CINAHL
 SEARCH STRATEGIES

• BOOLEAN OPERATORS?
• WILD CARDS?
 FINDING EVIDENCE OF EFFECTS OF
INTERVENTIONS

• PEDRO DATABASE EXCESS?

• SIMPLE SEARCH?
• ADVANCE SEARCH?
 REFERENCE

• PRACTICAL EVIDENCE – BASED PHYSIOTHERAPY BOOK

FORWARDED BY SIR LAIN CHALMERS
• 2ND EDITION GO THROUGH CHAPTER NUMBER 4