Search Techniques for Therapy, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Etiology Questions: Sophisticated Search Options for Retrieving Evidence

PROGNOSIS SEARCH TECHNIQUES

Is your clinical question a PROGNOSIS question?

Incorporate prognosis subject headings, subheadings, and keywords into your search to find evidence that predicts the probable outcome of a disease based on a individual's condition and the usual course of the disease as seen in similar situations.

Recommended Prognosis Subject Headings

Cohort Studies
Disease Progression
Longitudinal Studies
Prospective Studies
Follow-up Studies
Incidence
Prevalence
Death
Survival Analysis
Prognosis
Treatment Outcome
Medical Futility
Treatment Failure
Morbidity
Mortality
Survival Rate
Infant Mortality
Maternal Mortality
Cause of Death
Likelihood Functions

Recommended Prognosis Subheadings (attach to subject)

mortality (mo)
epidemiology (ep)

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

((natural$ or disease) adj (progress$ or course$ or histor$)).ti,ab,sh.
(cohort$ or compar$ or longitudinal$ or prospective$ or multivariate or reproducib$).ti,ab,sh.

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.