Q. Where do I find an article/case study on an ethical situation where a provider, government, or healthcare worker went against patient wishes?

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Case studies are usually a type of peer reviewed article (sometimes called scholarly articles), which are found in peer-reviewed journals. TCC Library has both print and online journals. The online journals are in our databases. See this FAQ for more info about what is meant by "peer-reviewed."

To find peer-reviewed case studies through the TCC library on this topic:

• You can search the Discovery Catalog to find peer-reviewed articles from the library's homepage. Discovery searches a lot of our databases all at once. After doing a search, you can limit to "Peer Reviewed" on the left hand side. Learn more about searching the catalog here.
  • Example search for this assignment that you can update or refine according to your needs.
    • Recommendation: Use an advanced search, limiting to "case study" in the title option while using other keywords. Many times "case study" is put in the title of case studies to make it obvious what kind of peer reviewed article they are. 
      • Play around with search terms, using synonyms and making use of Boolean phrasing where necessary. See this FAQ for more info/recommendations.
• Or, from the library's homepage under "Find," click on Articles & Databases.
  • You can limit by subject, such as to Health Sciences
  • Select an article database such as CINAHL with Full Text - Ebscohost, which allows you to restrict the results to include ONLY peer-reviewed or scholarly articles.
    • Recommendation: In a search, use one of the search bars for the search "case study" (can remove or keep the quotation marks). You can also ask it to search in the title for a "case study" using the options in the drop down (many case studies are labeled as such in the title to differentiate the kind of peer reviewed article they are):
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  • To restrict your results to only peer-reviewed or scholarly articles, sometimes databases have a checkbox or filter option that allows you to limit to "Scholarly (Peer-reviewed) journals," like the Discovery catalog.
  • Play around with search terms, using synonyms and making use of Boolean phrasing where necessary. See this FAQ for more info. 

You will be prompted to log into MyTCC before accessing the library databases, if you are not already signed in.

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