A two-hour single intervention on Medline searching led intervention students to have fewer search errors and higher quality searches than control students¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Intervention students had fewer search errors and correspondingly higher quality searches than did the control students after a two-hour single intervention on Medline searching techniques. → Kyriakoulis Konstantinos 2016

Evidence¶

Kyriakoulis Konstantinos 2016¶

Kyriakoulis Konstantinos, Patelarou Athina, Laliotis Aggelos, Wan Andrew C, Matalliotakis Michail, Tsiou Chrysoula, Patelarou Evridiki. (2016). Educational strategies for teaching evidence-based practice to undergraduate health students: systematic review. Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066070/

q3 · i? · review · r2

Controlled comparison study of a two-hour single intervention on Medline searching for evidence related to a clinical problem, in 4th-year medical students (n=92). The review reports "the intervention students had fewer search errors and correspondingly higher quality searches than did the control students".

"Findings showed that the intervention students had fewer search errors and correspondingly higher quality searches than did the control students."

Discussion¶

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