NSG 6999 Exploring the Literature Complete Solution
Picot Question: In herpes zoster, is combination medication therapy, consisting of an antiviral, a
... [Show More] steroid, and a nerve pain medication, more effective than use of an antiviral alone in the treatment of herpes zoster and associated post herpetic neuralgia over the course of the outbreak to resolution of post herpetic neuralgia during the first year of an initial outbreak.
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CINAHL
CINAHL is an SU subscription-only resource that offers full text access to 336 scholarly journals and indexes over 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Indexed journals do not provide access to full-text. Just because it is indexed in does not mean the library has full-text access to the journal. SU can always request articles for students via Interlibrary Loan, but the service is not instantaneous Look at the Major Subject Heading in the Full Record
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Date range 2016-2020
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While this gave more possible options under the subheadings, I found it a little more difficult to use. This is probably due to my unfamiliarity with this specific search option. Keyword search: Herpes zoster treatments AND post-herpetic neuralgia
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Date range 2016-2020
Academic, peer-review, and evidence-based journals/articles
Language: English
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CINAHL Heading search: Herpes zoster treatments
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Complications
Therapy
Prognosis
Education 8 articles
108 articles All articles were related to herpes zoster; some had treatment options in the title; all were within the date range; all were full text; 7 articles from Academic Journals, 1 from a magazine
78 from Academic Journals; most full text within date range; wider topic range, some better but some worse
PubMed
PubMed is a free health science citation & abstracts index from the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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Clinical study, Clinical trial, Comparative Study, Meta-analysis, Review
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Herpes zoster treatments AND post-herpetic neuralgia
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Clinical study, Clinical trial, Comparative Study, Meta-analysis, Review
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MESH search: (Herpes zoster treatments) AND post-herpetic neuralgia
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54 articles
No results found Search yielded a larger article pool than previous search engine, many of the previous articles were present in this search, was a little easier to find treatment option articles based on titles.
Cochrane Library
Cochrane Library provides access to the Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews. Full text of reviews are subscription only. Index summaries are a public resource. Indexed journals do not provide access to full-text. Just because it is indexed in does not mean the library has full-text access to the journal. SU can always request articles for students via Interlibrary Loan, but the service is not instantaneous Use the Simple Search and the Advance Search Features
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Herpes zoster treatments
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Date range starting Jan 2016
MESH search: Herpes zoster treatments
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8 Cochrane Reviews; 19 when date range removed
Number of articles varied depending upon what was selected in Thesaurus Matches All articles were related to herpes zoster and all were within the date range; the date range was not intuitive and needed to have month, day, and year selected.
Thesaurus Matches was a nice feature, but it gave a lot of possibilities without an easy way to narrow the search; having the dropdown on the MeSH tree was a bonus to save me from going back and forth with the different trees per topic
Dynamed
• Use the Simple Search and the Advance Search Features
• Allows you to search with MeSH Terms
• Check out the New Reviews
Browse reviews by topic Keyword search:
Herpes zoster treatments
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Topic, Immunology; Herpes zoster; Acyclovir; Trigeminal Neuralgia 287 topics and 15 images Not a great search engine as there is no way to refine the search
TRIP Database
TRIP is a clinical search engine to locate publicly available clinical evidence.
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Systematic Reviews
Guidelines-US Keyword search: Herpes zoster treatments
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Systematic Review
Since 2016
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30 systematic reviews;
18 evidence-based synopses Not a lot of filters, lists literature that the articles are published in but not the authors at a glance of the ‘Snippets’. Lists year but not month.
SU Library Search • Library Search is setup just like an EBSCO
• The Library even has a specialized PICOT search setup in Library Search—must go to Advance search to get to PICOT option Herpes zoster treatments
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Last 5 years
Peer reviewed (scholarly)
Academic Journals
English 185 articles Easy to use, good feature with a quick search option that can be refined easily, yields a large pool of articles so narrowing down the search is important, search options are very similar to CINAHL [Show Less]