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LibGuides: Systematic Reviews: Systematic Reviews in Health

WEBUseful Reading. Testing Treatments by Imogen Evans; Hazel Thornton; Iain Chalmers; Paul Glasziou. ISBN: 9781905177486. Publication Date: 2013-11-07. Although not exactly a book on Systematic Reviews, it is highly recommended to read Testing Treatments (Or listen to the freely available podcasts). This book discusses why testing …

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Finding Articles

WEBOvid offers a wide variety of search modes for you to use: Search for whole topics or questions using basic search; Search for subjects using advanced search; Search combinations of fields and subjects with multi-field searching; Find or check references with find citation; Explore the subject using the theasurus with search tools; Browse of search …

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Finding Journals

WEBJournals are important for finding: the most up-to date research on a topic; coverage of a specialised subject; original research, experiments and in-depth analysis

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Critical appraisal. Evaluating books, journals and websites

WEBCritical appraisal is the process of carefully and systematically examining research to judge its trustworthiness, and its value and relevance in an evidence-based context.

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LibGuides: Health Research: Images and photographs

WEBA guide to library resources for Health Research Links to images, podcasts, audio and video material for health and medicine

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LibGuides: Medicine: Top health and medicine databases

WEBThis full-text database provides access to top-tier biomedical and health journals. Covering a wide range of subjects, it is an essential resource for doctors, nurses, health professionals and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development.

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LibGuides: Biomedical and Life Sciences: Getting Started

WEBThis interactive online tutorial: Getting started with OneSearch will help you get started using the Library's discovery tool. At the end of this course, you will: Know what OneSearch is and why you should use it. Be able to sign in and use OneSearch when off-campus. Be able to use OneSearch to find and read an ebook.

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LibGuides: Biomedical and Life Sciences: Finding Articles

WEBAn index to life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. Thousands of specially commissioned articles in the life sciences, written by leading writers in the field. New articles are published each month. Online database of reproducible laboratory

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About Systematic Reviews

WEBAbout Systematic Reviews. Given the prolific nature of Academic Publishing, it can be very difficult to come to a conclusion based on single research papers, no matter how high-impact or widely read. This is especially important in the field of Medicine where high quality evidence of the benefits and risk of treatments is literally a matter of

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LibGuides: Medicine: Critical appraisal and evaluating sources

WEBCentre for Evidence-Based Medicine: Critical Appraisal. CEBM based at Oxford University, provides worksheets, checklists and other tools to use for critical appraisal. The CEBM also provides other tools for EBM, such as likelihood ratios and the CATmaker, a computer-assisted critical appraisal tool. Critical Appraisal Skills …

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Systematic Reviews: Undertaking your Systematic Review

WEB2. Formulate your Question and Define Scope. Before you start your search, read the Systematic Literature Searching LibGuide, and possibly attend library training. We will just discuss elements of a literature search unique to a Systematic Review. Consider if a search of Grey Literature will be included, or if the scope is worldwide in nature.

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