Unit 4 Part 2 - Subject or Discipline-Based Databases

1. What is the main subject of your question? Pharmacy

2. What subject guide or guides did you use to identify the relevant databases for your question? Health Sciences

Research entry #1

1. Which database did you choose for your search? PubMed

2. What terms did you enter to conduct your search? Pharmaceutical care in nursing homes

3. How many results did you retrieve? 599

4. If there were more than about 100 results, how did you refine your search terms to narrow your results? I added the words “development of” at the beginning of my keywords.

5. Once you got your results to around 100 (or fewer), how did you determine they were meaningful? I decided if the articles were meaningful by looking at their publication dates and the writer’s credibility.

6. Which article did you choose? Overview of the Medicare and Medicaid Programs

Authors: Hoffman ED Jr, Klees BS, Curtis CA

Publisher: Health Care Finance Rev. Stat. Suppl.

Published: 2004

7. How did you determine these articles were meaningful?

There was reasonable evidence in the articles that proved everything. The publication date was a little ways back but the writers all had a good background and it was a good source.

Research entry #2

1. Which database did you choose for your search? Science Direct

2. What terms did you enter to conduct your search? Pharmaceutical care and made sure I put in “title”

3. How many results did you retrieve? 77

4. If there were more than about 100 results, how did you refine your search terms to narrow your results? I added “AND nursing homes” at the end and I kept it in the title

5. Once you got your results to around 100 (or fewer), how did you determine they were meaningful? I looked at the years they were published and if the key terms were in the right part of the title.

6. Which article did you choose? “Exploring Subjective Outcomes Perceived by Patients Receiving a Pharmaceutical Care Service”.

Author: Tobias Renberg M., Åsa Kettis Lindblad, Mary P. Tully

Publisher: Elsevier Inc.

Publication Date: 2006

How did you determine these articles were meaningful? The writers were all involve in science and some had PhD’s so they should know what they were talking about. There was also a lot of data analysis.

Unit 4 Part 1 - Periodicals and General Databases

Research Log Entry 1

1. What three periodicals did you choose?

I chose Newsweek, American Bar Association Journal, and The Journal of Comparative Psychology for my three periodicals.

2. Name three articles, one from each of the three journals you chose.

The three articles I chose were “The Abortion Wars Get Technical” from Newsweek, “Role of nasal chemical senses in garter snakes response to airborne odor cues from prey” from The Journal of Comparative Psychology, and “Gun Control vs. Gun Prohibition” from the American Bar Association Journal.

3. What are the major differences among these articles?

The difference between these articles was the way they were written. Some were more written based on fact rather than opinion. One was an actual scientific study whereas the other two were generally argumentative essays.

4. What are the major differences among these periodicals?

The major differences among these periodicals were their formatting. There were different types of pictures in them and some were less formally written than others. It seemed like The American Bar Association Journal was more for adults and harder to understand. The Journal of Comparative Psychology is something I would only read if I was taking a class that required it.

Research Log Entry 2

1. Which database did you choose for your first search? Directory of Open Access Journals

2. What terms did you enter to conduct your search? Pharmacy

3. How many results did you retrieve? 19

4. If there were more than about 100 results, how did you refine your search terms to narrow your results? n/a

5. Once you got your results to around 100 (or fewer), how did you determine they were meaningful? n/a I only got 19 results.

6. Which article did you choose? Give the bibliographic information for that article (I must be able to access this article).

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education Volume 72, Issue 6, Article 126

Authors: David W. Fielding, Gayle A. Brazeau, Kishor M. Wasan

Publisher: American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Published: 2004

7. How did you determine this article was meaningful?

These writers seemed like they had plenty of scientific research for their explanations. They all had degrees from Universities so they were well educated and it is a well-informed article.

Academic Search Premier

1. What terms did you enter to conduct your search? Health Sciences

2. How many results did you retrieve? 363

3. If there were more than about 100 results, how did you refine your search terms to narrow your results? I did not because I found one that I liked on the first page.

4. What differences did you note in how you needed to manipulate your search terms in this different database? This data base had a lot more results than the last one so I had to be more careful with what I typed in for my keywords.

5. Once you got your results to around 100 (or fewer), how did you determine they were meaningful? I looked to see what part of the title the keyword got put into.

6. Which article did you choose? Give the bibliographic information for that article (I must be able to access this article).

I chose Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the Health Sciences (4^th Ed.)

Author: Davis, J. Wade

Published: 2008

7. How did you determine this article was meaningful?

The book is based a lot on statistics so there is a lot of useful information in it. The author also went is a graduate and has written other books of this type with great information on the source.