This 3 video series provides instruction on how to search PubMed@USC for evidence-based practice literature to answer a quantitative foreground clinical question.
Video 1 – Search Strategy and Search Options ~ 12 min.
- This video provides an overview of the overall PubMed@USC Database Searching series. It also goes over PICO to identify search concepts, how to develop a search strategy using keywords and Boolean operators, as well as how to search using the Clinical Queries filter and the Advanced Search Builder.
Video 2 – Database Features & NCBI Account ~ 12 min.
- This video goes over how to manage, save, and share results in PubMed@USC, and how to register for an NCBI account.
Video 3 – MESH controlled vocabulary ~ 8 min.
- This (optional) video goes over how to search PubMed@USC using MESH controlled vocabulary. Recommended for anyone planning to work in the field of research.