OVID search example I

The Search Question

A search question can be created by using the PICO Framework (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome):

• Research Question (RQ1): In stroke patients (P), do home visits or "house calls" by occupational therapists (OTs) (I) improve the activities of daily living (O)?

Creating The Search in Ovid MEDLINE

• The search was run in Medline on the Ovid platform / interface: https://access.ovid.com/custom/redirector/index.html?dest=https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ubc.ca?url=http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=N&PAGE=main&SHAREDSEARCHID=6rJXOt2TgQgodo4dCA7H0qIBIpL0YK0U0lrnQwTXJb9aBic9gAuKCxYZQow1jQn84

1. exp Stroke/ ............................MeSH definition
2. stroke.ti,ab.kf. (kf = keyword field supplied by authors)
3. brain infarct* or cva or cerebrovascular accident* or cerebral vascular accident*.mp. (mp = many places, title, abstract, MeSH field)
4. or/1-3
5. House Calls/
6. house call* or home visit*.mp.
7. or/5-6
8. Occupational Therapy/
9. occupational therap*.mp.
10. or/8-9
11. exp Quality of Life/
12. "quality of life".mp.
13. or/10-11
14. 4 and 7 and 10 and 13

Dean asks: How could this MEDLINE search be improved?

References

• UBC Library Ovid Medline Tutorial. https://guides.library.ubc.ca/Medline
• EMBASE Video Tutorials. PICO. https://guides.library.ubc.ca/EMBASE/PICO
• OVID search example II
• What health librarians do