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Systematic Literature Searching

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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OAF-SSK-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • autumn
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 15

Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: ETK GYTK

Topic

To cope with the rapid evolution of medicine, physicians need to remain abreast of the many new therapies and diagnostic tools that affect their practices. This requires knowledge and skills that make physicians able to retrieve available scientific evidence and to use it as an important pillar of decisions in the daily practice.

Students participating in the course will acquire background knowledge necessary for effective information retrieval during their later work as a doctor. They will learn how to formulate clinically relevant questions and how to retrieve scientific literature to answer these questions. They will get an insight into how scientists can collect results of already available clinical studies before starting their research and how it is possible to identify research gaps in a specific scientific field.

Lectures

  • 1. Role of scientific literature in the daily medical practice. Sources of health care information - Decsi Tamás
  • 2. Basic searching: how to find scientific literature effectively for a focused question? - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 3. Formulating a clinically relevant question - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 4. Systematic reviews (definition, importance) - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 5. Methods of developing a search strategy - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 6. The MEDLINE database - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 7. Systematic literature searching in MEDLINE (via Pubmed) - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 8. Systematic literature searching in MEDLINE (via Ovid Medline) - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 9. The Cochrane Library. Systematic literature searching in The Cochrane Library - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 10. Systematic literature searching in other databases. Searching clinical trial registers (clinicaltrials.gov, EU Clinical Trials Register) - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 11. Documentation of search steps. The PRISMA flow-chart - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett
  • 12. Software that make systematic literature searching easier and faster - Lohner Szimonetta Ivett

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

The teaching material will be made available for students (handout).

Notes

Recommended literature

Lefebvre C, Manheimer E, Glanville J. Chapter 6: Searching for studies. In: Higgins JPT, Green S (editors). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.1.0 (updated March 2011). The Cochrane Collaboration, 2011. Available from www.handbook.cochrane.org.

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Attending at least 75% of lectures and completing assigned tasks.

Mid-term exams

Knowledge and skills of students will be evaluated during the course.

Making up for missed classes

Missing not more than 3 hours may be amended by studying at home and answering specific questions of the tutor.

Exam topics/questions

Exam topics are based on lectures.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

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