Information Sources in Biomedicine: From the simple Meta-Search to the customized PubMed

• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa Leitão, Rosário
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.spmi.pt/index.php/rpmi/article/view/1663
• topic: Meta-Search; Questões Clínicas; PubMed; Medical Subject Headings; Medicina Baseada na Evidência; My NCBI; Meta-search; clinical queries; education evidence based Medicina; my NCBI; pubmed; medical subject heading

The need for scientific update encourages health professionals (HP) to use the Internet more and more often. However, the vast number of information sources available in Biomedicine, raises the problem of selecting and questioning the appropriate sites. In this article, we aim to identify and orientate the internet user in the choice of accurate sites, motivating the user to carry out their own searches using simple and concise tips. Starting with a broader search using Meta-Search, we orient HP to a consecutive use of segmentation filters to eliminate the “noise” of irrelevant information. We highlight Medline using the PubMed interface, giving examples of the consistency and precision of the results when the controlled language of Medical Subject Heading is used. Amongst the various examples given, the use of My NCBI to customize PubMed is emphasized, in order to save and store searches that can be run over periodically.The suggestions presented emphasise the necessary skills needed to perform a successful search to help the user to find more and better knowledge.