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PAPB 501: Understanding and Implementing Clinical Research Library Guide

This is the course guide that accompanies the Your Path to Discovering resources literature searching lecture of PAPB 501: Understanding and Implementing Clinical Research.

What's in a name?

Take your question and extract a few key terms. Now you should be able to find anything you want right??? Not necessarily because one of the amazing things about any language is that there can be many terms for the same concept. 

The image belows show the many terms that could be related to the term aspirin:

Also masticiation can mean chewing, neoplasms can mean tumors and 

Tips for picking terms

As you have your question in front of you write down a  few words for each concept so if you get stuck later you can simply go to another word these do not have to be the exact same meaning they can be related words as well. 

Example:

Original Word New Words
Aspirin
  • actecylic acid 
  • saliycates
Joint Pain
  • arthragia 
Osteoarthritis
  • Arthritis