BUMC MEDLINE Plus/OVID Tutorial


Boston University Medical Center
Alumni Medical Library

Tutorial Menu Options
Tutorial Home
Instructions for Using this Tutorial
Developing Your Search Strategy
Formulating Your Question
Choosing An Appropriate Database
Selecting the Best Terms
Advantages and Disadvantages of Text Word and Title Word Searching
Selecting the Best Medical Subject Headings
Quiz Section I: Text Word vs. MeSH Searching
Mapping
Subheadings
Tree Display
Explode Function
Focus Function
Combining Sets
Quiz Section II: Combining Sets
Limiting
Quiz Section III: Reviewing the Explode, Focus, Subheadings, and Limit Options
Viewing or Displaying Search Results
Full Text Options
Printing, E-Mailing, and Saving Search Results
Ordering Articles
Searching Tips, Hints, & Reminders
Tutorial Evaluation
Additional Tutorial Topics
Explaining OVID's Main Menu Icons
Searching for a Specific Author
Searching for Title Words
Searching for Journal Names


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COMBINING SETS PRACTICE EXERCISES

Scenario:
One of your patients was recently diagnosed with clinical depression. The patient is receiving medication and counseling, but you're looking for other ways to boost his mood and general health, and wonder if the benefits of regular exercise extend to helping ease the symptoms of depression. You decided to do a search to find out what's been written in the medical literature.

How would you combine these concepts together using the Boolean AND and OR?

(Click on the green question mark above the set(s) you would choose.)

Option A:
Option B:
Set #1 depression OR Set #2 exercise
Set #1 depression AND Set #2 exercise