Journal Club 2010: PL-1 Acquiring the Best Evidence (7)

Journal Club 2010: PL-1 Acquiring the best evidence (7)

Facilitator: Brent Hall, Pharm D. & Sandra Kramer/Carol Howe, MLS

Learning Objectives:

Each PL-1 will be able to:

1. List at least 3 on-line search tools for medical literature searches

2. Use clinical queries, MESH topics, and delimiters in PubMed

3. Write a clinical query and PICO when given a clinical scenario

4. List hierarchy of evidence strength for various study types

You admit a child with sepsis and hypotension to the PICU. Should you use normal saline or albumin for fluid resuscitation?

Article to be presented by PL-1:

References:

1. Searching the medical literature using PubMed: A tutorial. Ebber JO, et al. Mayo Clin Proc 2003;78:87-91.

2. Medical subject headings used to search the biomedical literature. Colletti MH, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2001;8:317-323.