Lecture-02 - Research 1- Ketevan Mirziashvili.pdf
- 1. 1 Lecture #02 Dr Ketevan MIRZIASHVILI 2024-2025 Academic year Literature Searches and Reference Management
- 2. 2 How do a literature search? • Literature search is a comprehensive exploration of published literature with the purpose of finding scholarly articles on a specific topic Literature Searches
- 3. 3 Why do a literature search? • to understand the complexity of a clinical issue • gives you insight into the scope of a problem, • provides you with best treatment approaches and the best available evidence on the topic • EBP evidence-based project Literature Searches
- 4. 4 Five steps for literature search success 1. Plan using PICO(T) to develop your clinical question and formulate a search strategy 2. Identify a database to search 3. Conduct your search in one or more databases 4. Select relevant articles 5. Organize your results Literature Searches
- 5. 5 What is a PICOT Question? P: Population/patient, problem I: Intervention/indicator (Variable of Interest) C: Comparison/control O: Outcome T: Time N/a Literature Searches
- 6. 6 PICOT Example: Does telemonitoring blood pressure (I) in patients with hypertension (P) affect blood pressure control (O) within one year of initiation of the medication (T)? • Foreground questions • background Purpose of PICO • to assist in identifying the best available evidence in order to improve healthcare outcomes • decision-making process Literature Searches
- 7. 7 Five steps for literature search success #1: Plan using PICO(T) PICO(T) question framework is a formula for developing answerable, researchable questions Literature Searches
- 8. 8 #2: Identify a database "Big 3" databases: Embase, PubMed, and Scopus #3: Conduct your search begin to search! • key words • "granular details" Literature Searches
- 9. 9 #4: Select relevant articles • “Snowballing” Literature Searches
- 10. 10 #5: Organize your results • personalized accounts for storing selected references and search strategies What is a structured search strategi?SSS • A search strategy is an organised structure of key terms used to search a database. The search strategy combines the key concepts of your search question in order to retrieve accurate results. Literature Searches
- 11. 11 Conclusion • Literature searches are an iterative process—it will take some time and negotiation to find what you are looking for Literature Searches
- 12. 12 A reference manager supports researchers in performing three basic research steps: searching, storing, and writing (M. H. Fenner 2010). • reference manager is a software package that allows scientific authors to collect, organize, and use bibliographic references or citations What is a Reference Manager?
- 13. 13 Reference management is collecting, organizing, storing and using your references Reference management tools allow to: • Import references from online databases, library catalogs and PDFs • Organize references in a searchable database • Share references with colleagues • Create formatted bibliographies • Insert citations and footnotes into word processing documents Reference management software allows for the digitalization of a personal collection of relevant scholarly publications Reference Management
- 14. 14 Reference Management Systems EndNote EndNote EndNote is a widespread and powerful system for Windows and Macintosh with a good Microsoft Word integration. ReadCube Papers App Read Cube Papers App Read Cube Papers App is the upcoming programmed of Papers 3. Papers 3 will not be updated, but could be used further on. Mendeley Mendeley Mendeley Reference Manager combines Mendeley Reference Manager Desktop, a PDF and reference management application and Mendeley Web, an online social network for researchers.
- 15. Citavi Citavi Citavi is a feature-rich reference management program for Microsoft Windows often used in the humanities. JabRef JabRef JabRef is a reference management software that uses BibTeX as its native format. RefWorks RefWorks RefWorks is a powerful web-based system which allows reference sharing with non-subscribers. Zotero Zotero Zotero is an open source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and documents.
- 16. 16 Zotero | Your personal research assistant • Zotero allows users to collect and to organize a variety of web sources such as citations, full-texts, web pages, images and audio files directly in the browser Reference Management Systems
- 17. 17 References • Fenner, M., 2010. Reference manager overview. Gobbledygook. Available at: http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/reference-manager-overview/. • Fenner, M.H., 2010. Reference management meets Web 2.0. Cell Ther Transplant. doi:10.3205/ctt-2010-en-000087.01. • Gilmour, R. & Cobus-Kuo, L., 2011. Reference Management Software: a Comparative Analysis of Four Products. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204. • Specht, C.G., 2010. Opinion: Mutations of citations. The Scientist. Available at: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/29252/title/Opinion-- Mutations-of-citations/.
- 18. Practice #02 Title : Create an article with the text including any researched information (word/200-250w) (Keep the standard structure of scientific paper) Dr Ketevan MIRZIASHVILI Methodology : Choose the topic Text Should include PICOT scenarios
- 19. Practice #02 Group #01: Modern dentistry and the new generation Group #02: Modern dentistry and cosmetic aesthetics Group #03: Modern dentistry and new technologies today Group #04: Modern dentistry and art Group #05: Dental problems and fast food Group #06: Aesthetic surgery and society Group #07: Digital technology in children's lives Group #08: Books and digital books in learning Group #09: Violent video games and the young generation Group #010: Vaccinations should be compulsory Group #011: The environment and society Group #012: We should shut down zoom? Dr Ketevan MIRZIASHVILI
- 20. 20 Thanks for your attention KetevanMirziashvili@eu.edu.ge
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