Microsoft word - ovid self test and answer key 02_08.doc

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Ovid Self-Test
1. What are the recent developments in the surgical treatment of morbid obesity in adolescents?
2. What are the effects of working 30 hour shifts on medical residents?
3. Use Ovid’s Save Search/Alert feature to save the search history in question so that you can run
that search again at a future date. (Hint: You must make a personal account to save searches to).
4. What’s the difference between Cialis and Viagra? Which do patients prefer?
5. My doctor says my hoarseness is caused by my GERD, is that true?
6. Find a Harvard Health Letter article on grapefruit and drug interactions from August 2003.
Provide the article title, volume, issue, and page numbers. Is it available in full text at Health
Sciences Library?

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Health Sciences Library
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1. What are the recent developments in the surgical treatment of morbid obesity in adolescents?
Type morbid obesity into the search box, click on “Search”. Click on “Continue” in the next window. Click on the
check box next to “surgery” and click on “Continue”. Click on “Additional Limits” (near the bottom of the green box),
then click on Adolescent in the Age Groups menu, and on “Limit A Search”. Scroll down to see the most recent 10
citations.
2. What are the effects of working 30 hour shifts on medical residents?
Type medical residents into the search box and click on “Search”. Click on the checkbox to the left of the
subject heading “Internship and Residency”, click on continue, then click on “Continue” again. Type work
shifts
into the search box. Click on the check box to the left of the subject heading “Work Schedule Tolerance”.
Click on “Continue” and then on “Continue” again. Click on the check boxes to the left of the two subjects in
the “Search History” table, then click on Combine selections with: “AND” button under the “Search History”
table.

3. Use Ovid’s Save Search/Alert feature to save the search history in question 2 so that you can run that
search again at a future date.
Click on the “Personal Account” link and set up your account.
Click on the “Save Search History” button under the Search History table. Type resident work shifts into the
Search Name box, type a brief descriptive comment into the Comment box, and select “Permanent” as the Type.
Click on the Save button. To rerun the search strategy at a future date, click on the Saved Searches/Alerts link in
the upper right of the main search screen. Click on the check box to the left of your search name, then click on
the "Run" button. Click on the Main Search Page button to view the results.
4. What’s the difference between Cialis and Viagra? Which do patients prefer?
Neither drug has its own Medical Subject Heading. Identify the drug names for Cialis (tadalafil) and Viagra
(sildenafil). Uncheck the “Map Term to Subject Headings” box and search the first brand and drug name: cialis
or tadalafil
Then search the second brand and drug name: viagra or sildenafil Click on the Combine
selections with: “AND” button. The results will provide articles that discuss both drugs. Type in patient
satisfaction
, click “Continue” and then click “Continue” again. Select the checkboxes for your two subjects,
then click on Combine selections with: “AND” button.
5. My doctor says my hoarseness is caused by my GERD, is that true?
There is no link to special consumer health resources in Ovid. Then type GERD into the search box, select
“Gastroesophageal Reflux”, click “Continue”, and click “Continue” again. Click on the “Additional Limits” and
select Consumer Health Journals from the Journal Subsets menu, then click on “Limit A Search” button.
6. Find a Harvard Health Letter article on grapefruit and drug interactions from August 2003. Provide
the article title, volume, issue, and page numbers. Is it available in full text at Health Sciences
Library?

Click on the “Find Citation” tab. Type grapefruit in the article title box, type Harvard Health Letter into the
journal name box and type 2003 into the publication year box and click on the “Search” button.

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