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Title: Searching Skills

Category: Searching Skills

Description: A 90 minute, interactive course introducing principles and techniques for planning and carrying out an effective in-depth, reproducible search of healthcare literature.

What does this course cover?

In this course you will learn how to develop and use a strategy for your literature search, and discover techniques that can make your search more effective across different databases. This course will look at defining your search question, how to identify the key concepts within a question and the relevant alternative terms, different principles and techniques for searching free text and thesaurus terms, and how to combine your search terms using Boolean logic. A range of different databases that may be appropriate for your search will be introduced, and resources will be signposted to guide you in using these different search tools. Further support with using specific search tools and systems will be offered following the course.

Who is this course for?

Any member of NHS staff wanting to carry out in-depth, reproducible searches of published healthcare literature.

Course Outline: Not supplied

Time / Date Information

Start Date: 21/11/2024

Duration: 14:30 - 16:00

Book by Date (Deadline): 20/11/2024

Location Information

Venue: Online via MS Teams

Staff Information

Tutor: Ingrid Francis

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