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1 Identify two different Internet-based search databases you might use for an online search. Find the help section and read about how the search engine uses Boolean operators, advanced search options, and other symbols or strategies that you might use to make your search more efficient. Make yourself a table with notes outlining these tools and tips for each of the search engines.

2 Formulate an EIP question to guide an intervention decision in a practice situation with which you are familiar. Using the Internet, search for studies providing evidence to inform that decision. In your search, see how the use of different search terms and different Boolean operators (and versus or) affect the range and types of studies that display. Just by examining titles, and perhaps reading some abstracts from some of the studies that seem most relevant to your question, determine whether some of the studies are reviews of studies. Briefly describe the different kinds of results you get using different search terms.

3 After examining some of the studies that you find in your review in Exercise 2, discuss how the practice context, including idiosyncratic client characteristics, might make one of the studies you find inapplicable to your practice decision even if that study might provide the best evidence from a research standpoint.

4 Go to the following website: http://www.lib.umich.edu/socwork/rescue/ebsw.html. Explore some of its links to additional sites relevant to EIP. Briefly describe one or two things you find that seem likely to be helpful to you in implementing the EIP process.