Assignment: Delimited Research

Assignment: Delimited Research
Assignment: Delimited Research
Assignment: Delimited Research
Week 3 – Assignment 1 Discussion In this discussion, you will share your search strategies that you have employed to find evidence for your study. For this discussion: State your PICOT question. Did using the terms used in this question lead you to useful research studies? What MESH terms have you tried? Did they help you find additional studies? Are you finding MESH terms useful to expand or delimit your search? Are you finding relevant articles? If not, how did you modify your search to increase productivity? Indicate which databases you used—those you found useful and those that were not. What levels of evidence do the studies you are finding represent? Post any questions or concerns you may have and provide feedback and recommendations to your classmates. Working together and sharing search strategies is very helpful. Use the Search Tracker to keep track of search terms. Using the appropriate Rapid Clinical Appraisal (RCA) Tools, appraise one or two articles and add the information to your Evaluation Table to receive feedback from faculty. At this juncture, your table is a work in progress. You will complete it in Week 4. The RCA Tools and Evaluation Table in Word for you to complete can be found in the Week 3 Overview section.
The renowned interface design guru, , defined delimited search and compared it to his more favorite search interface (). Here are his own words in his famous work, “The Human Interface”:
“With a delimited search, the computer waits for the user to type a pattern and delimit it, after which it is the user who waits while the computer does the search. When using a delimited search the user must guess, beforehand, how much of a pattern the computer needs to distinguish the desired target from other, similar targets. With an incremental search, he can tell when he has typed enough to disambiguate the desired instance, because the target appeared on the display. (..) In spite of near agreement about the desirability of incremental searches on the part of both designers and users, almost all interface-building tools make it easy to implement delimited searches and difficult or impossible to implement incremental searches.”