*4b. Correcting the complete “final search assignment” keyword search

Objectives:

1. Be able to list the types of alternate terms that should be included in a search statement for a non-drug concept and know how to find such terms.
2. Be able to use truncation, quotation marks, Boolean operators, and parentheses correctly in a keyword search.
3. Know how to use messages above the PubMed search result list and information in the “History and Details” table to revise a search.
4. Know how to document a search.
5. Use input from others (professors, other students, etc) to correct or improve  your own search.

Required videos:

All students are required to watch the video.

FSA 2 assignment correction video

Assignment

1.  Use input from the video  to correct and improve your own search .  Feel free to consult classmates and/or to check each other’s work.

Exhaustive searches are always group efforts.  When I work on an exhaustive search in support of a team’s systematic review project, other team members give me suggestions  for terms that I should add to my search.  In this assignment, you are expected to take  any additional search terms used in the videos and add them to your search.  You may have terms for the resistance concept in your FSA2 assignment that I didn’t include in the search when I prepared the correction video.  If I didn’t tell you to remove a term or highlight a term when I corrected your FSA2, you may keep it in your search  (be sure to check your submitted assignment for my highlighting and notes as well as reading my comments).

2. Submit your corrected and improved keyword search (including list of removed drug names) via Canvas as “FSA2 corrected”.  Include:
   1. Your name
   2. A copy of your corrected/improved keyword search.
   3. The list of drug names you removed because they had alternative non-nilotinib-related meanings (if any) under the appropriate heading.

The following drug names were omitted from the keyword search statement because they were used frequently to indicate discussion of irrelevant concepts and were causing retrieval of irrelevant results:

Questions, Problems, Text Errors?

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• Do you have any questions or do you feel that clarification of some aspect of the materials would be helpful?
• Have you noticed any errors or problems with course materials that you’d like to report?
• Do you have any other comments?

If so, you can submit questions, comments, corrections, and concerns anonymously — or with your e-mail (your choice) — through this online form .  Alternatively, you’re always welcome to contact Cindy Schmidt directly 402-650-5056, cmschmidt@unmc.edu, or by making an appointment to meet with Cindy via Zoom.

Answers to questions or requests for clarification that are submitted anonymously will be answered in Canvas on the “Discussions” page for this course.