Search Strategies

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Search strategies

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1. Simple search
2. Advanced search
3. Boolean Search
4. Others

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a search strategy that allows you to perform a comprehensive or thorough search

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Simple search (keyword search)

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is best if you need to familiarize yourself with a topic or if you need general information about the topic

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Simple search

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allow you to widen your search

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Synonyms

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these terms allow you to widen or specify your search, depending on the scope of your research

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narrow, broad, and related terms

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refers to the more specific topic

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narrow term

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refers to a term that is closely related in meaning

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Related term

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refers to the bigger or umbrella term

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Broad term

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allows you to specify or target your search based on your need

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Advanced search

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It is best to use when you want to limit the search results based on your pre-defined conditions, saving you time and effort from weaving through a volume of information that you may not need

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Advanced search

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allows you to combine search terms using Boolean operators to pull precise information and leave out the irrelevant ones

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Boolean search

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best to use if you already know what you want to
include and what to exclude in your search

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Boolean search

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this operator tells the system to find ALL of the terms you entered

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AND

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This type of search would pull
specific matches

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AND

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This operator is best to use if searching using
synonymous terms

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OR

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this operator tells the system to find any one of the terms

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OR

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This results in a comprehensive match
because the system shall look for all possible matches

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OR

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this operator tells the system to exclude a term from the search.

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NOT

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Use this operator if your topic is
usually associated with a second topic that is not part of your research

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NOT

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is a character that substitutes any possible character in the search. It can be used in place of one character,
no character or sometimes a group of characters

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wildcard

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This strategy searches the concept instead of individual terms. It looks up for matches based on the exact order of
words in the string

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Phrase searching

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is also known as stemming or root expansion

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Truncation

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is a strategy that allows you to frame your research question into a particular way to be able to arrive at the right
answer and identify your search terms

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PICO

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P in Pico

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Population

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I

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intervention, indicator

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C

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comparison, gold standard of care, placebo