Termless EBH Searching

Below are instructions for 'termless' approach to the EBHC Pyramid 5.0 search strategy (DOI: 10.1136/ebmed-2016-110447). This work is based on difficulties in teaching traditional searching (Badgett RG, Paukert JL, Levy LS. Teaching clinical informatics to third-year medical students: negative results from two controlled trials. BMC Med Educ. 2001 PMID: 11532204 Opens in new window

; PMCID: PMC48153.)

Identifying an example topic for this lesson

If you already have an article you found elsewhere, enter its PMID at PubMed then use that citation in place of our examples in the slide decks below.
Do you need an example topic and PMID from UpToDate? Try:
- Obesity in adults: Dietary therapy (section: intermittent fasting)
- UpToDate cites this RCT from 2017. PMID: 28459931
If you want to choose your own topic at UpToDate and get a PMID from that topic, then
1. Open UpToDate (opens in new window)
2. Follow instructions for getting a PMID from UpToDate in the slide deck below

Groundwork before searching

Installing PubMed custom filters (with instructions on creating a PubMed account; opens in new window)
- Video instructions (using 'Hi Impact Journals' filter as an example)

Termless searching

If you already have an article you found elsewhere, enter its PMID at PubMed then use that citation in place of our examples in the slide decks below.

1. Getting articles that cite your article from PubMed

PubMed

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You can get more citations from Scholar if you copy your article's title into Scholar, but Scholar does not have filters.

2. Getting similar articles from PubMed

PubMed

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Questions: rbadgett@kumc.edu