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Learning Goals

What to Search

How to Search

Where to Search

How to Organize

How to use PICO framework to create search terms

How to combine PICO search terms into search string

How to access and use various databases (filters + tools)

How to store articles, citations and notes using Zotero

PICO Framework

PICO Framework

PICO Research Question

PICO Searching

PICO Searching

Searching Commands

PICO Searching

PICO Searching

PICO Searching

  • You do not need to specify all of the PICO components in your search.

 

  • Good starting point is to start with Patient and Intervention

What database/search tool you use for research purposes?

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Research Databases

200+ available to all HPU students

Filter by Type of Evidence

Filter by Type of Evidence

Find It

Organize Your Research

Zotero exports citation information from any database by using a plugin within your favorite Internet browser.

Maintain your citations organized in your personalized database and create references much easier.

https://hpu.libguides.com/zotero

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DPT 8310

By Elizabeth Torres