ICML 9

9º World Congress on Health Information and Libraries

Salvador, Bahia - Brazil, September, 20 to 23 - 2005

BVS4

4th Regional Coordination Meeting of the VHL

September, 19 to 20 - 2005

The role of the professional of the information in the search of scientific evidence: the experience in the construction of a systematic review

Participants:
  • Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad; Sociedad Argentina de Nutrición; Centro Interdisciplinario Universitario para la Salud. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires  - Argentina
  • Centro de Investigaciones Epidemiológicas. Academia Nacional de Medicina. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires  - Argentina

The role of the professional of the information in the search of scientific evidence: the experience in the construction of a systematic review

The investigation for review of publications has charged relevance in the last years, given the great quantity of publications of sciences of the health. In turn, the upgrade of the professionals is hindered by the increment in the number of produced publications and its scarce accessibility. Because a systematic review is an exhaustive search of the bibliography, following a certain protocol, it is necessary that its realization is developed by a multidisciplinary team. In front of the dispersion of published evidences, the lack of automated procedures of indexing next to technical of recovery of the adapted information and the quantity of irrelevant references that generate the searches; it is fundamental the participation of the professional of the information, in the construction of the plan to begin the search, gathering, normalization and integrat ion of the data by means of the design and generation of a base, with the purpose of gathering the biggest evidence to give a reliable answer to the outlined query. This papers describes the processes bibliographical employees for the construction of the systematic revision: & quot;The effectiveness of surveillance strategies to reduces the pregnancy related death & quot; that is in development. Analyzes the possibilities and benefits of the use of a bibliographical management software for the manipulation from the articles to be analyzed by the team reviewer. Values the possibilities and benefits of the use of a bibliographical agent for the manipulation from the articles to be analyzed by the team reviewer. Evaluates the contribution of the different bibliographical bases in the retrieval of articles. Quantifies the titles of periodic publications with free access to the complete text inside the identified registrations initially. Finally, relieve the presence of data of the authors\' contact in the bibliographical records.