The Evidence-Based Medicine Pico Strategy Applied to Dentistry Using Mesh, Emtree and Decs

Abstract

Introduction: the PICO mnemonic is an evidence-based medicine tool that helps formulate the research questions needed to conduct the right search for scientific information. To properly classify this information, controlled languages or thesauruses are used for information retrieval. The aim was to identify whether the PICO search strategy in evidence-based medicine using the MeSH, Emtree and DeCS thesauruses answers a research question in the field of dentistry. Methods: to carry out the PICO strategy, a research question was formulated, identifying the natural language terms for each component of the PICO acronym, which were normalized into the three thesauruses to create the search equations. Results: 43 results were foundon Medline through PubMed, 5 on Embase, and 0 on LILACS. There were 4 original articles that answer the research question, proving to be an effective strategy for finding clinical evidence. Conclusion: this study shows that the strategy helps obtain results to answer the question posed. It should be noted that, in order to successfully search and retrieve information, researchers should use the PICO strategy and get familiar with the thesauruses that help structure search equations in the various bibliographic databases.

Effects of Selenium Supplementation in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Alzheimer’s Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Value-Based Healthcare Delivery: A Scoping Review

“…The databases were chosen for their international recognition and broad multidisciplinary coverage, with the intention of retrieving articles relevant to the subject of the scoping liter-ature review. According to the eligibility criteria, articles that included descriptors related to the terms MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and DeCS (Health sciences desCriptors) were selected [38]. The terms value-based, care, health, and healthcare were identified from the MeSH and DeCS descriptors and combined with a Boolean operator, as shown in Table 2, to develop a database search to achieve the proposed objectives.…”

Ferramentas de gestão de risco na segurança do paciente suicida em emergências hospitalares

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