Search For Tomorrow
BUILDING A CULTURE OF RESEARCH AT AN ACADEMIC MEDICAL
CENTER THROUGH A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW SERVICE
Agenda
Guiding Light
◦ Online Request Form &
Consultation Worksheet
All My Children
◦ Systematic review service
statistics
Another World
◦ Helping faculty set realistic
goals
The Young & The Restless
◦ Barriers to generating a search
Dynasty
◦ Embase
Search for Tomorrow
◦ Future directions
Guiding Light
ONLINE REQUEST FORM & CONSULTATION
WORKSHEET
Guiding Light
Designed our form and interview as a weeding tool
◦ Narrative reviews
◦ Solo systematic reviews
◦ Noncommittal researchers
Our form and interview also guide patrons toward good
practices
◦ PICO
◦ Reminders about PROSPERO and Cochrane
Online Request Form
◦ Contact Information
◦ Research Team & Affiliations
◦ Research Question
◦ Has systematic review been published on topic
◦ Purpose of systematic review
◦ Date to complete search & systematic review
◦ Relevant citations
◦ Drafted exclusion criteria
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Qualtrics Form Example – August 2014
What is your research question?
To review the nature of aggression that results in firearm misuse
When do you anticipate completing the search?
9/1/14
When do you anticipate competing the systematic review?
10/1/14
In Person Consultation
◦Invite all members of the research team
◦Based on Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Library
◦PICO formatted question
◦ Explain your question to me as if I’m a liberal arts major…
◦Exclusion Criteria
◦Databases & Grey Literature
◦Citation Management Software
All My Children
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW SERVICE STATISTICS
Consultation Requests Over Time (n=42)
5
4
3
2
1
0
Status of Requestor
16
Faculty
11
Graduate Student
5
MD Student
2
Research Staff
Visiting Scholar
1
Undergraduate Student
1
Post Doc
1
Intern/Resident/ Fellow
1
Affiliation of Requestor
Pediatrics
Otolaryngology
Preventive Medicine
Other Clinical Medicine
Physical Therapy
Dentistry
Social Work
Occupational Therapy
Obstetrics/Gynecology
Engineering
Psychiatry
Emeritus
Biochemistry
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Type of Search Completed (n=49)
16%
Systematic Reviews
Literature Reviews
25%
59%
Neither
Another World
HELPING FACULTY SET REALISTIC GOALS
Encourage Teamwork & Timelines
◦Case 1: Faculty member directed students in a
professional program to complete and publish
a systematic review within 1 semester (15
weeks)
Encourage Teamwork & Timelines
◦Case 2: Faculty member required residents to
complete systematic reviews as individuals
Encourage Teamwork & Timelines
◦Case 3: Faculty members require residents to
complete systematic reviews as leaders of a
group that includes the faculty members
The Young & The Restless
BARRIERS TO GENERATING A SEARCH
Barriers to Generating a Search
◦Librarians
◦Imposter syndrome
◦FOMA
◦Bottom line – nothing is perfect, but documenting
your search is the key
Barriers to Generating a Search
◦Researchers
◦There is more to life than PubMed
◦There is more to life than published journal articles
◦Publication bias is not just a river in Egypt
Dynasty
EMBASE
Embase
Not all institutions subscribe
Embase is not entirely necessary for all
systematic reviews (did the world just
end?)
NML has pay-go access to Embase
◦ 2 research teams have used it
◦ Another group used the international
user’s access
Search for Tomorrow
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Future Directions
Assist in teaching systematic review course in preventive
medicine
Collaborate with other institutions offering systematic
review services
Conducting research on systematic reviews
Questions?
The Bold and the Beautiful
Lynn Kysh, MLIS
Clinical & Research Librarian
USC Norris Medical Library & Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles
kysh@usc.edu
Robert Johnson, MLIS
Clinical Services Librarian
USC Norris Medical Library
robertej@usc.edu