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Assignment 3: Literature Review: 1 Point

The document appears to be a quiz on the key concepts and processes involved in conducting a literature review. It contains 10 multiple choice questions testing understanding of topics like critical appraisal of literature, search strategies, information retrieval processes, and indexing. The questions cover identifying an appropriate search query, determining which search engines and Boolean operators to use, and defining key terminology in the literature review process.

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Assignment 3: Literature Review: 1 Point

The document appears to be a quiz on the key concepts and processes involved in conducting a literature review. It contains 10 multiple choice questions testing understanding of topics like critical appraisal of literature, search strategies, information retrieval processes, and indexing. The questions cover identifying an appropriate search query, determining which search engines and Boolean operators to use, and defining key terminology in the literature review process.

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1) State whether TRUE or FALSE. Critical appraisal of literature is done in an organized and 1 point
systematic manner.


a) True


b) False

2) Complete the statement. The query system in the information retrieval process of a 1 point
literature review is --------------------------------.


a) User defined


b) Provider defined


c) Conditional


d) Not structured

3) Which of the following is not generally reported in the table of literature review? 1 point


a) Study design


b) Study population


c) Primary outcomes


d) Impact factor 

4) Which among the following is not a search engine for retrieving published medical 1 point
literature?


a) PubMed


b) Ovid


c) Google Scholar


d) Mendeley

5) An investigator is interested to summarize literature on the prevalence of hookworm 1 point


infections among children. Which among the following search strategies would yield the appropriate
result?


a) “Hookworm infections” AND “Child”


b) “Hookworm infections” OR “Child”


c) “Hookworm infections” NOT “Child”

d) “Hookworm infections” BUT “Child”

6) A researcher efficiently scans the literature to identify a set of potentially useful articles 1 point
and books related to a research topic. Which of the following terminologies correctly denote this
process?


a) Indexing 


b) Critical appraisal 


c) Data management


d) Information seeking

7) A researcher wants to study the effect of physical activity on reduction of systolic blood 1 point
pressure among patients with hypertension. S/he has identified a subset of documents which are
most relevant to the research question within a large document collection. Which of the following
terminologies denotes this process?


a) Information management 


b) Critical appraisal


c) Information retrieval 


d) Literature organization

8) Which of the following is the purpose of the Boolean operator ‘OR’ in literature search?  1 point


a) Connecting synonyms of one key concept


b) Connecting different key concepts


c) Connecting keywords that need to be excluded


d) Connecting keywords to narrow down the results

9) The literature collected during a review, is related to the specific research question, in 1 point
which of the following steps?


a) Critical appraisal of literature


b) Organize information


c) Identify lacunae


d) Synthesize results

10) Identify the TRUE statement about indexing. 1 point


a) It is the process of applying principles of analysis to identify the studies which are valid
and unbiased


b) It is the process of identifying a subset of relevant documents within a large document
collection


c) It is the process of collecting the required information from a database using a set of
queries

d) It is the process of scanning the literature efficiently to identify a set of potentially useful
articles or books

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