Describe your clinical problem and choice of electronic index. How did the index facilitate (or impede) your ability to construct an efficient search? How time consuming was your search? Would there be barriers to using the index in daily practice?
I see a lot of acute low back pain at work and was interested to see what info existed about different treatment modalities and their efficacy. I went with PubMed for this search because my old standby, CINAHL, wasn't on the approved list. I really don't like PubMed all that much. In another class we received a CINAHL tutorial so I'm feeling pretty comfortable with at least one search method. Looking this up "acute low back pain" in PubMed wasn't really that time consuming. I think I lucked out with the limits that I ended up using. The big barriers for me in using PubMed is the difficulty I found in tracking decent abstracts and full text for the references I found. PubMed would be a decent choice in my daily practice if it had better abstracts and links to full text.
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