Searching for veterinary evidence: strategies and resources for locating clinical research.
This article offers information regarding selected veterinary information resources, along with basic search strategies for locating clinical evidence within these resources. No one database provides adequate indexing and abstracting to all literature relevant to the veterinary clinical question. An understanding of a database's syntax and field structure is necessary to formulate a functional search strategy and evaluate the outcome of search results. Flexibility when identifying, selecting, and combining search terms is also required to avoid overlimiting a search.
Murphy
Sarah Anne
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The Ohio State University, 225 Veterinary Medicine Academic Building, 1900 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. murphy.465@osu.edu
D000818:Animals; D019992:Databases as Topic; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D012106:Research / Q000592:standards; D012107:Research Design; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends*