Searching bibliographical databases

How to complete this assignment: A new patient comes into your office and describes a dental topic they recently heard about in the news. They want you to read the news article and tell them more on the topic. The topic is unfamiliar to you so you must conduct a literature search using MEDLINE via Ovid. This will allow you to locate citations to articles that can address the dental topic. In order to perform this task,

1. Review the news article assigned to you by going to the roster page and clicking on the Assignment URL behind your name.
2. Develop a search strategy using at least 2 Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), 1 keyword term, use Boolean operators, and limit the search to English language.
3. After completing the search, review the relevant citations, emailAmy Gregg between 1-3 citations and the search strategy with a brief statement about why these citations are relevant to the dental topic.

**In email please include your name, student number and proper subject heading**

Sample
Article from the Post Gazette:
Practical tool kit helps ER docs treat dental emergencies
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03217/208793.stm

1. Search Strategy:
   1. exp emergency service, hospital
   2. emergency room$.mp.
   3. 1 or 2
   4. exp tooth injuries
   5. exp toothache
   6. 4 or 5
   7. 3 and 6
   8. limit 7 to English language
      
      
2. Citations from MEDLINE:

Holan G. Shmueli Y.
Knowledge of physicians in hospital emergency rooms in Israel on their role in cases of avulsion of permanent incisors.
International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry. 13(1):13-9, 2003 Jan

Nelson LP. Shusterman S.
Emergency management of oral trauma in children. [Review] [15 refs]
Current Opinion in Pediatrics. 9(3):242-5, 1997 Jun.

3. Brief Statement:
   These citations describe what types of dental emergencies are often brought into the hospital emergency room and possible roles of the emergency room physicians in dental emergency care.

Grading criteria: Criteria for grading are based on your search strategy and brief statement of the topic. Creating the best possible search strategy is the most important aspect of this assignment. Your assignment will be due one week after you have had the class. Your grade will be worth 10 points and graded as follows:

Late submissions will be downgraded one letter grade.
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