Step 2 Finding the Evidence
Scenario Activity
The research question is
“What evidence is there that smoking cessation
interventions help pregnant women to quit
smoking?”
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Search Strategy
Patient
Concepts
Intervention Comparison
Outcome
Keywords
Pregnant
Pregnancy
Women
UK
Smoking
cessation
Counselling
Medicines
No
intervention
Quit
smoking
Thesaurus
terms
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NHS Evidence / Journals and Databases
• Sign in to search and access resources
www.library.nhs.uk
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NHS Athens
• Sign in to NHS Athens to access healthcare
databases, journals and books online
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Healthcare databases
Choose a healthcare database. For this search Medline
is appropriate to use:
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Use the Advanced Search
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Map the keywords to the Thesaurus
Using the Thesaurus is
helpful to identify all relevant
articles because if you only
search “pregnancy”, you
would not find any articles
that only referred to
“pregnant” women.
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Explode includes all the
terms within each topic
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Clicking on Pregnancy
makes the folder
expand to view all
terms included
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Select all appropriate
terms then click on
Search
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Search Strategy
Concepts
Patient
Intervention Comparison
Outcome
Keywords
Pregnant
Pregnancy
Women
UK
Smoking
cessation
Counselling
Medicines
No
intervention
Quit
smoking
Thesaurus
terms
Pregnant
Pregnancy
Smoking
cessation
….
….
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Combine the thesaurus terms
Select the terms
you wish to
combine
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View the results?
The Results still quite
high in number to
review and so limits can
be applied to narrow
the results to the most
relevant and useful.
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Narrow the results
Several options exist to
narrow the results to
the most relevant
articles. By selecting
each of the relevant
categories the number
of articles has now been
reduced to on 60.
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Viewing the results
Click number
to view results
Scroll down list
to view results
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Bibliographic
from Medline
Medline record
record
Fields
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Viewing documents
Review and select titles of interest to save
and read abstracts to find out if articles
relevant to answering your initial research
question.
Will be
highlighted when
full text article is
available in
electronic and
printed format.
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Saving searches
Click to save your search
Can then
retrieve saved
search when
you next log in
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