Module 2/Question 3

You used an electronic index, a guideline index, and a web search engine to retrieve information relevant to your clinical problem.  Compare and contrast your results.  Which resources were useful/not useful for your information retrieval task, and why?  Identify some alternative strategies for retrieving relevant information - would context relevant information retrieval be useful?

The guideline index was better at organizing the articles.  The electronic index was better at narrowing down, although EndNote does have the option to search through CINAHL, PubMed and Cochrane's Library, which is really helpful.  The web search engine isn't very helpful if you are looking for scientific information due to the fact that anyone can write whatever they want on the world wide web!  

I liked the options of searching from the electronic index and guideline index.  They both have their places and are both user-friendly.  I agree that context relevant information retrieval would be useful because it would allow you to search in a more specified context.  This would most likely be better and faster.