THERAPY SEARCH TECHNIQUES

Is your clinical question a THERAPY question?

Incorporate elements of a therapy question into your search for evidence. By using combinations of subject headings, subheadings, and keywords, you will retrieve clinical trials, multicenter studies, comparative studies, or double-blinded studies that have evaluated the efficacy of certain therapies.

Recommended Therapy Subject Headings

Clinical Protocols
Feasibility Studies
Pilot Projects
Reproducibility of Results
Research Design
Double-blind method
Patient Selection
Random Allocation
Clinical Protocols
Sample Size
Comparative Study
Placebos

Recommended Therapy Subheadings (attach to subject)

drug therapy (dt)
therapeutic use (tu)

Recommended Therapy Keyword Searches Try entering these combinations on the "enter keyword" line:

  1. (clinical or control$ or compar$) adj (trial$ or study or studies).ti,ab,sh.
  2. (multicenter$ or multicentre$ or multi-centre$ or multi-center$).ti,ab,sh.
  3. (blind$ or mask$ or placebo$).ti,ab,sh.
  4. 1 or 2 or 3

The .ti,ab,sh. that you see above indicate that you are looking for these words in the titles (ti) , abstracts (ab), or subject headings (sh) of the articles. The $ indicates a wild card character or truncation. The adj indicates adjacency, or tells the system that you want these words to be next to one another.