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Physical Therapist Assistant: PTA Case Study Assignment

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Finding Case Studies in the Library

Nursing and Allied Health Database keywords

  • Hit Enter.
  • On the left side of the screen, scroll down to Document type, click more, and then check the box to include Case Studies.

Document Type, More, Case Study

  • Click apply in the bottom right of the popup screen.
  • You can always add more keywords to your search to get fewer results.

Hip injuries and case study

 

 

  • Go to the CINAHL Database.
  • Type in keywords. I'm keeping it very broad.
  • Before you click Search, click on Advanced Search (highlighted in Yellow)

cinahl search advanced search highlighted

  • In the Advanced Search window, scoll down to choose Publication Type and then Case Study.

Case study highlighted

  • Go to the very bottom of the screen and click the yellow Search button on the right side. 
  • You can further narrow your result list by adding keywords to your search.

Quotation marks (" ") are used when you want to search an exact phrase of two or more words. For example, a Google search for physical therapy without the quotation marks gives nearly 1.7 billion results (as of Feb. 2023), whereas searching for "physical therapy" with the quotations marks gives 138 million results (about 8% of 1.7 billion).

 

 

Boolean operators: and, or, not.  Use to either increase or decrease the scope of your search

AND is a limiting term meaning that the more words you put with AND, the few results you get.

OR is an expanding term meaning that the more words you put with OR, the more results you get.

NOT is a limiting term meaning that you are telling the search engine to deliberately eliminate keywords.

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image courtesy of Ohio University Libraries

 

Make the search filters work for you!
Filter results by source type, document type, and date range.

 

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