Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days and provide further suggestions on how their database search might be improved.
Dear Timothy, I like the way you structure your PICOT question and, more so, the exciting topic you bring on board. Agitation, aggression, restlessness, and sleeplessness symptoms among mental health patients represent an area of primary concern for mental health practitioners. The ability to sedate patients safely and efficiently has been under study for years. As noted by Klein et al. (2018), not all antipsychotic medications can have the same sedative impact. Besides, your search process is insightful. The use of boolean operators and filters is critical in selecting current and relevant articles. Perhaps you could share more regarding how you used boolean operators. For instance, which specific search phrases did you combine, and how were the results? According to Bramer et al. (2018), it is crucial to use keywords from the PICOT question when searching for articles in databases. As a result, the concepts presented by the intervention, outcome, population, or comparison is broken down to establish the search phrases.
References
Bramer, W. M., de Jonge, G. B., Rethlefsen, M. L., Mast, F., & Kleijnen, J. (2018). A systematic approach to searching: an efficient and complete method to develop literature searches. Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA, 106(4), 531.
Klein, L. R., Driver, B. E., Miner, J. R., Martel, M. L., Hessel, M., Collins, J. D., … & Cole, J. B. (2018). Intramuscular midazolam, olanzapine, ziprasidone, or haloperidol for treating acute agitation in the emergency department. Annals of emergency medicine, 72(4), 374-385.
References
Bramer, W. M., de Jonge, G. B., Rethlefsen, M. L., Mast, F., & Kleijnen, J. (2018). A systematic approach to searching: an efficient and complete method to develop literature searches. Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA, 106(4), 531.
Campbell, J. A., Walker, R. J., & Egede, L. E. (2016). Associations between adverse childhood experiences, high-risk behaviors, and morbidity in adulthood. American journal of preventive medicine, 50(3), 344-352.