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**Imagine you are asking the Research Question**: How do __atypical antipsychotics (I)__ impact the __quality of life and disability (O)__ in__ adults with schizophrenia (P)__//?// | **Imagine you are asking the Research Question**: How do __atypical antipsychotics (I)__ impact the __quality of life and disability (O)__ in__ adults with schizophrenia (P)__//?// | ||
- | - First, enter the Population (patients with schizophrenia), | + | - First, enter the Population (patients with schizophrenia), |
- | - Enter each element, identify whether it is a Population, Intervention, | + | - Enter each concept, then hit the Enter button, |
- | - Optionally, leave a note. | + | |
- Continue adding terms until you have enough terms to identify your specific topic area (**Recommended**: | - Continue adding terms until you have enough terms to identify your specific topic area (**Recommended**: | ||
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<WRAP center round help 90%> What is a **Comparator? | <WRAP center round help 90%> What is a **Comparator? | ||
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- | ==== 3. Edit PICO Details | + | <WRAP center round info 90%> Negation: Check the negate box to exclude the specific PICO elements from your search. For example, you can add the population " |
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+ | ==== 3. Edit Concepts | ||
- | When you have completed the tasks above, you will have unstructured | + | When you have completed the tasks above, you will have unstructured |
- | To proceed, click on "PICO detail" | + | To proceed, click on the down arrow under Concepts |
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==== 4. Group together PICO elements ==== | ==== 4. Group together PICO elements ==== | ||
- | - Drag and drop the Group box from the right-side panel to the respective PICO section.{{: | + | - Drag and drop the Group box into the concepts box. |
- | - Group together sets of populations, | + | - Group together sets of populations, |
+ | - You can also negate whole groups by checking the box next to Negate. | ||
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- | <WRAP center round info 90%> Negation: Check the negate box to exclude the specific PICO elements from your search. For example, you can add the population " | + | |
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To populate Abstracts, RoboPICO, Topic Modeling, and Keywords: | To populate Abstracts, RoboPICO, Topic Modeling, and Keywords: | ||
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- | - Review the query string to ensure that it is structured as intended. | + | |
- | - Run the exploratory search. This may take a minute, since this will run a pre-search of PubMed. | + | |
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===== How to Interpret Search Exploration Findings ===== | ===== How to Interpret Search Exploration Findings ===== | ||
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Skim through abstracts retrieved through your search exploration terms. | Skim through abstracts retrieved through your search exploration terms. | ||
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The purpose of reviewing Abstracts should be to: | The purpose of reviewing Abstracts should be to: | ||
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Browse commonly-mentioned Populations, | Browse commonly-mentioned Populations, | ||
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The purpose of RoboPICO should be to: | The purpose of RoboPICO should be to: | ||
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- Identify the most common topics of underlying abstracts, and | - Identify the most common topics of underlying abstracts, and | ||
- Identify terms that you should add to your PICO (which you can populate to "Add a PICO Element" | - Identify terms that you should add to your PICO (which you can populate to "Add a PICO Element" | ||
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Clicking a row in the chart also initiates a strict MeSH lookup on the PICO element; not all extracted PICOs will correspond to MeSHs, but expect approximately half of lookups to succeed. In the event of a failed lookup, MeSH and Google search linkouts are offered. | Clicking a row in the chart also initiates a strict MeSH lookup on the PICO element; not all extracted PICOs will correspond to MeSHs, but expect approximately half of lookups to succeed. In the event of a failed lookup, MeSH and Google search linkouts are offered. | ||
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<WRAP center round help 90%> What are MeSH? Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are terms defined by the National Library of Medicine as a way to organize and search the content of medical literature. In some ways, MeSH are similar to Nested Knowledge tags, but unlike tags, MeSH are standardized. </ | <WRAP center round help 90%> What are MeSH? Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are terms defined by the National Library of Medicine as a way to organize and search the content of medical literature. In some ways, MeSH are similar to Nested Knowledge tags, but unlike tags, MeSH are standardized. </ | ||
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Explore topics that appear most frequently among the references. References may belong to one or more topics, or none. Clicking a topic shows references belonging to the topic. | Explore topics that appear most frequently among the references. References may belong to one or more topics, or none. Clicking a topic shows references belonging to the topic. | ||
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These topics are derived from a [[https:// | These topics are derived from a [[https:// | ||
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Explore the frequency of word combinations (n-grams) from abstracts or indexed descriptors (MeSH and/or journal keywords). While n-grams are presented in order of occurence in abstract text, descriptors are inherently unordered. Clicking a row shows unique references containing the combination. | Explore the frequency of word combinations (n-grams) from abstracts or indexed descriptors (MeSH and/or journal keywords). While n-grams are presented in order of occurence in abstract text, descriptors are inherently unordered. Clicking a row shows unique references containing the combination. | ||
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You should continue iteratively refining your query until your Abstract, RoboPICO, Topics, and/or Keywords contain mostly relevant content and minimal extraneous records or concepts. | You should continue iteratively refining your query until your Abstract, RoboPICO, Topics, and/or Keywords contain mostly relevant content and minimal extraneous records or concepts. | ||
- | It is useful to **check the total number of records** | + | It is useful to **check the total number of records** |
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+ | To view the full query, expand using the dropdown arrow. You can view the results returned in PubMed by clicking on #### results. You can finalize the query (input it into your nest) by selecting Finalize and following the steps. | ||
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There is no ' | There is no ' |