Enter keywords related to your respiratory therapy topics into the databases below to find specific, peer-reviewed, evidence-based articles.
This assignment requires that you use evidence-based research to develop a point of view about a newer therapy.
What is evidence-based practice?
How to identify an evidence-based article:
When using one of the library databases, make your searching easier by using these tips!
Keywords—Keywords are one way to create search strategies to locate relevant information on your topic. Keywords are the most significant words and phrases associated with your topic.
Quotation Marks/Phrase Searching—Use quotation marks to search for a specific phrase.
Example: “respiratory therapy”
Boolean Operators: AND, OR, NOT
And—narrows a search by inclusion.
Example: "respiratory therapy" AND ventilation retrieves only sources that include both search terms, which limits the number of results.
Or—expands a search.
Example: medications OR therapeutics will retrieve sources containing either term, expanding your pool of resources.
Not—narrows a search by exclusion.
Example: "respiratory therapy" NOT pediatric retrieves only sources that contain the first keyword, eliminating sources for keywords that follow not.
Truncation—Usually using an asterisk*, increases the number of results you’ll retrieve by searching for variant endings of a word root.
Example: therap* retrieves therapy, therapies, therapeutic, etc..
Many of our databases have tools to save and cite your articles. Look for the following options:
Saving
Citing
Contact:
Megan Mamolen, PhD, MLIS
Librarian, Associate Professor
Phone: 440-525-7310
Email: mmamolen1@lakelandcc.edu
Office: Library, C-3051c
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