Rebecca
Carlson,
MLS, AHIP
Health Sciences Librarian
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Rebecca Carlson, MLS, AHIP, is a health sciences librarian and Liaison to the Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. In this role, Carlson collaborates on education, research, and evidence-based practice initiatives and works with the UNC Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice on IPE practice and scholarship. Carlson’s research interests include data science in health sciences libraries; improvements in systematic review and literature searching methods; interprofessional education and practice; and the value of librarianship in clinical and didactic education.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: As there is exponential growth in the publication of interprofessional education (IPE) research studies, it has become more difficult to quickly find relevant papers and stay abreast of all the latest research. To address this, this poster presents the methods and results of a formal search hedge validation study that provides recommended search terms for IPE studies. Specifically, this poster addresses the development, evaluation, and validation of search hedges for IPE studies in PubMed, to improve future access to and synthesis of IPE research. The comprehensive, validated sets…