Bruce Abbott
Health Sciences Librarian
916-734-3529
Link to: UC Davis Library Search
Library Search:
Pubmed – this customized link provides pre-set filters and other preferences
Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Systematic Review Search in PubMed.
Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections Systematic Review Search in PubMed.
Central Line Associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) Systematic Review Search in Pubmed.
Catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI) Systematic Review Search in PubMed
Nursing Best Practices Systematic Review Search in Pubmed
Nursing Practice Guidelines Search in PubMed (English only)
Sepsis Bundles Systematic Review Search in PubMed
Sepsis–Best Practices Systematic Review Search in PubMed (works in Chrome, not IE)
Trauma Nursing Preceptorship Program
Ambulatory staffing Oncology Outpatient setting
Psychological stress or burnout following unsuccessful resuscitation in nursing staff
Vital signs charting timeliness (CINAHL)
Vital signs charting timeliness (PubMed)
Software to improve unit communication
Train the trainer on communication/teaching skills
The campus license to EndNote has not been renewed, but many will continue to use it. Many people use Endnote because of its compatibiilty with Microsoft Word. The libraries offer classes on Endnote.
Please note: When you download EndNote, follow the accompanying instructions precisely.
Take a few minutes to watch some introductory videos from the EndNote | Thomson Reuter’s website.
UC Davis Library’s EndNote: Getting started guide by Librarian Cory Craig provides a web-based overview to basic EndNote functions, illustrated with screenshots. Includes custom settings for UC Davis to enable finding full-text.
EndNote with UCD-eLinks
EndNote with Google Scholar
EndNote with Google Docs
1. Have your document open in Google Docs.
2. Have an EndNote library open.
3. Drag and drop citation to the place in the document where it is wanted.
(It will appear in Google Docs document unformatted {Adler,2006 #578})
4. When finished adding citations, download as a MS Word doc.
5. Open with MS Word if not already open.
6. In MS Word, select EndNote menu so that EndNote commands are visible.
7. Select the style needed and click on ‘Update Citations and Bibliography’
(command wording may differ in different MS Word versions).
The crucial piece of this is that everyone adding citations to the Google Docs document needs to use the same EndNote library because part of the citation identification is the record number. The library could be in Dropbox or on a server to which everyone has access.
EndNote Telephone Help Desk
hours M-F 6am-5pm PST
1 800 336 4474, prompt 4, option 1.
Video Training
www.endnote.com/training
www.youtube.com/endnotetraining
The EVIDENCE PYRAMID is often used to illustrate the development of evidence. At the base of the pyramid is animal research and laboratory studies – this is where ideas are first developed. As you progress up the pyramid the amount of information available decreases in volume, but increases in relevance to the clinical setting.
Meta Analysis – systematic review that uses quantitative methods to synthesize and summarize the results.
Systematic Review – summary of the medical literature that uses explicit methods to perform a comprehensive literature search and critical appraisal of individual studies and that uses appropriate statistical techniques to combine these valid studies.
Randomised Controlled Trial – Participants are randomly allocated into an experimental group or a control group and followed over time for the variables/outcomes of interest.
Cohort Study – Involves identification of two groups (cohorts) of patients, one which received the exposure of interest, and one which did not, and following these cohorts forward for the outcome of interest.
Case Control Study – study which involves identifying patients who have the outcome of interest (cases) and patients without the same outcome (controls), and looking back to see if they had the exposure of interest.
Case Series – report on a series of patients with an outcome of interest. No control group is involved. (Definitions from CEBM)
Other Levels of Evidence
NHMRC – How to Use the Evidence: Assessment and Application of Scientific Evidence
Joanna Briggs Institute – Levels of Evidence – One of four levels of evidence are assigned to all conclusions drawn in JBI Systematic Reviews.
Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (UK) – Levels of Evidence (March 2009)
The Physician Assistant History Society, Inc., is dedicated to the history and legacy of the physician assistant profession through the identification and collection of appropriate papers, manuscripts, magazine and newspaper clippings, newsletters, reports, dissertations, oral histories, and visual artifacts, such as films, slides, videos, photographs, and digital images.