Effective Litterature Search Flashcards
1
Q
What are the search strategies on PubMed ?
A
-Booleans
AND : default operator used in PubMed
OR NOT
- “quotation mark” strategy : search this exact sentence
- Truncation strategy : allows to find different word endings and expend your results (asterisk)
- Alternative word strategy
- MeSH (medical subject headings) : predefined terms on PubMed
- MeSH subheadings
- Filters (time lag, type of study
