NURS 642

Clinical Management in Primary Health Care: Family NP II

What is PICO for literature searching?

This video will define PICO and how it is used.

Video used under a Creative Commons CC:BY license - Using PICO to Structure Your Literature Search by JWSLibrary (John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta)

What does it mean to refer to a resource by the terms PRIMARY and SECONDARY?

~ PRIMARY resource: the author(s) collected or created the data / research presented

Examples: original research published in a peer reviewed journal, dissertation

Where? PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, Scholar, Government data (e.g. CDC web site and publications e.g. MMWR)

~ SECONDARY resource: the author(s) summarized, analyzed or synthesized the research of others

Examples: literature review, systematic review, organization web sites (see link below), clinical point of care tools

Where? Databases listed above, Google, Wikipedia, Up to Date, Dynamed