Evidence-based resources and search strategies for orthopaedic surgeons.
Identification of information on a specific topic of interest can be a difficult and time-consuming task. The key to successful and time-efficient article identification is to use easily accessible, complete, and most up-to-date information sources and to perform a focused search that minimises hits without missing relevant articles. Pre-appraised articles and databases allowing "pre-filtering" techniques for high level evidence are useful for a quick search for the best available evidence. For a more comprehensive review, a combination of MEDLINE, EMBASE and meeting abstract databases is usually more than sufficient. Full-text publications can be obtained from the Cochrane library and from OVID.
McMaster University, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hamilton General Hospital, Ont., Canada. Zlowi@web.de
Michael
M
Zlowodzki
Boris A
BA
Zelle
Marius
M
Keel
Peter A
PA
Cole
Philip J
PJ
Kregor
D003226:Congresses as Topic; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D016239:MEDLINE; D009985:Orthopedics; D012196:Review Literature as Topic