Are you struggling with ever-more complicated systematic review searches? Do you have a basic knowledge of Boolean operators, thesaurus terms, and syntax and want to raise your search game? This webinar will give you guidance on creating high-quality searches in a faster way. Bramer and associates have taught his method at several filled-to-capacity annual meeting courses.
This is a required course for Level I of the Systematic Review Services Specialization.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- identify important elements in the search
- use the published method to create and optimize searches
- use the shared macros to translate searches between databases
Audience
Participants should have basic knowledge of databases (boolean operators, thesaurus (MESH) terms, and syntax).
Presenter
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Wichor Bramer is an information specialist at the Erasmus Medical Center Medical Library in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In October 2019, he successfully defended his doctoral (PhD) thesis, “Serving Evidence Syntheses: Improving Literature Retrieval in Systematic Reviews,” in which he describes his method and his research on the effectiveness and efficiency of the method.
MLA CE: 1.5