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DNP810 Evidence-Based Practice For Quality Improvement

The document provides instructions for an assignment requiring students to search PubMed using MeSH terms and Boolean operators to find references on a selected topic. Students are asked to run searches with different limits and record the number of results. They then export the search results and save their work in a specified file format.

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DNP810 Evidence-Based Practice For Quality Improvement

The document provides instructions for an assignment requiring students to search PubMed using MeSH terms and Boolean operators to find references on a selected topic. Students are asked to run searches with different limits and record the number of results. They then export the search results and save their work in a specified file format.

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DNP810 Evidence-based Practice for Quality Improvement

Module 1 Assignment

Assignment:

Register
for a NCBI Account – (Do not click the
area that states “skip registration by using a 3rd party
sign in option.”
Please make a note of your log in username and password).

Complete
these PubMed® activities by following
these instructions:

Using
PubMed®, you will create a search strategy for your
selected topic. You should
use MeSH® terms and Boolean operators (i.e., AND, OR,
NOT). After you complete
each step below, record the number of references returned
by your search.
Include the frequency of “ALL” and “Review” for each step.
Adjust your search strategy so that you can complete all
steps.

Run a basic
text search using two MeSH® terms for your topic.

Refine your
search by using the LIMIT feature to include only
references that are within
five years.

Refine
further to include references in which the search terms
appear in the
Abstract/Title.

Refine
further still to include references in which the search
terms appear only in
the Title.

Display
your results in Abstract format. Export your results to
text and print; this is
to use later while you write for this short activity. Save
this file using your
search terms in the file name, e.g. diabetes-mellitus.doc.

Save your
work as ” Firstinitial.lastname-coursenumber-modulenumber”
in the
.doc or .docx file format, e.g. J.Smith-N000-1.docx.

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