EBM II: How to perform a literature search

Archive ouverte

Castagnetti, M. | Herbst, K.W. | Bagli, D. | Beckers, G.M.A. | Harper, L. | Kaefer, M. | Kalfa, N. | Fossum, M.

Edité par CCSD ; Elsevier -

International audience. The present article is a second part related to evidence based medicine (EBM) in a series of five by the European society for paediatric urology (ESPU) research committee. It will present the different databases/search engines available to clinicians and researchers and describe strategies to focus the search to one's particular needs. Indeed, databases/search engines used and search strategy should vary according to the goal of the research. If the aim is to address a clinical problem, the search should allow to identify a small number of most pertinent articles (high specificity); if the search is for research purposes, instead, it should ensure no meaningful articles are overlooked (high sensitivity).

• Description
• Sujet/Public
• Outil
• Outil d'anticipation
• Mémoire et thèse
• Gestion