Practice Test

Information you will be given on a piece of paper at the time of your exam:

The three templates listed below are especially important for drug information searches

1. Drug A causes Disease B
(“Drug A/adverse effects”[mesh] ) AND (“Disease B/etiology”[mesh])

2. Drug A used to treat Disease B
( “Drug A/therapeutic use”[mesh]) AND (“Disease B/therapy”[mesh] )

3. Drug A used to prevent Disease B
“Drug A”[mesh] AND “Disease B/prevention and control”[mesh]

Notes:

In the templates above a “Drug Class A”  heading  or a “Procedure A” can replace “Drug A”

PubMed field tags:

Review Questions

Please, let me know if you have questions or think one of these questions has been entered incorrectly cmschmidt@unmc.edu, 402-650-5056, Thanks, Cindy

Section 1. Information need – to – Resource Matching

Please review the distinctives listed in the introduction to this section of the book if you have questions about the answers to #1-18.

Nine information needs are listed below, #1-9. Please match each information need with the best resource to meet that need

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Nine information needs are listed below, #10-18. Please match each information need with the best resource to meet that need

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Section 2.  True or False

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Questions 22 –25 refer to the “Environmental Exposure”[MeSH] tree show below

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Section 3.  Multiple Choice

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Questions 29 -­‐-­‐ 31 pertain to the following clinical situation

You are rotating through a rheumatology service and have a patient with severe psoriatic arthritis. Her physicians have recommended treatment with one of the monoclonal antibodies that bind TNF and inhibit the action of this protein. TNF is involved in initiating the inflammatory cycle that causes the skin and joint damage seen in psoriatic arthritis (see example of severely affected joints, skin and toenails in the photo below).

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Questions 32 – 37. An upcoming continuing pharmacy education workshop will focus on workplace security and workplace environment. Many students are co-presenting with COP faculty.

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Questions 34 -37. Yet another colleague is preparing a talk on the subject of the civility and  political correctness (PC) of pharmacist and pharmacy student communication. His search is shown below:

(PC OR “politically correct” OR “political correctness” OR polite* OR rude OR rudely OR rudeness OR civility OR harass*OR defam*) AND (pharmacist* OR pharmacy OR pharmacies) AND (communicat* OR discours* OR relation* OR discours* OR conversat* OR speech OR speak* OR talk*)

His search has retrieved over 7,464 results. Few are relevant.

He decides to check the messages above the search results.

Next he goes to the “Advanced” page, scrolls down to the “History and Search Details” table, clicked on the arrow in the “Details” column, and scrolled down to find the “Translations”

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Use the search history table shown below to answer question 39 and question 40

You’ve been asked to review the literature about the attitudes of health professionals and the attitudes of health professions students toward substance abuse.

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42.  Given the information shown below, —

Your friend has created the search strategy:

(loracarbef* OR Lorakarbef* OR “LY-163892” OR LY163892 OR 121961-22-6 OR 76470-66-1 OR Carbac[tiab] OR Carbem[tiab] OR Lorabid[tiab] OR Lorax[tiab] OR Lorbef[tiab] Lorafem[tiab])

43.  You’re interested in errors seen when computerized order entry systems are used.  You have created a search strategy.  The MeSH tree for “Medical Errors”[MeSH] , the search strategy you created, and the citation information and subject headings from three PubMed records are  shown below.   Which of the three records will your search retrieve (#1, #2, #3, all (1,2 and 3), or none)

MeSH tree:

Search Strategy: “Medical Order Entry Systems”[MeSH] AND “Medication Errors”[MeSH]

Confused?  Watch this video to see how to go about answering #43.

44.  You run a Google Scholar search for:

intitle:naltrexone 1..5 mg fibromyalgia

Which of the following Google Scholar hits would be retrieved by this search? (a,b,c,d, or all (e))?

45.  You’ve been asked to obtain a copy of the full-text of the following article:

Yanamadala M, Heflin MT, White HK, Buhr GT. Ensuring vitamin D supplementation in nursing home patients–a quality improvement project. Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics. 2012;31(2):158-71.

You find the following entry in the Library’s catalog:

Questions, Problems, Text Errors?

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