This course provides an introduction to structured searching.
It is intended for health professionals working at SA Health.
The aim of this course is to assist you to construct a comprehensive, methodical search strategy in Medline in order to answer a clinical question.
Learning objectives:
1. Learn how to formulate a clinical question
2. Identify search concepts
3. Translate search concepts into search terms
4. Understand the difference between free text terms and medical subject headings (MeSH)
5. Using a clinical question, formulate a comprehensive search strategy using the Boolean operators AND and OR
6. Enter a search strategy into Medline