BUMC MEDLINE PLUS/OVID TUTORIAL

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Instructions for Using the Tutorial
Developing Your Search Strategy
Formulating Your Question
Choosing An Appropriate Database
Selecting the Best Search 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 Function
Subheadings
Search Results
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
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Printing, E-Mailing, and Saving Search Results
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Searching Tips, Hints, & Reminders
Tutorial Evaluation
ADDITIONAL TOPICS
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Author Searching
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OTHER RESOURCES
Searching for Evidence in the Primary Medical Literature Tutorial: EBM Tutorial
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Direct-entry Commands: enable users to bypass menu options
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That concludes the first part of our search. The results are displayed below, in the Search History box.

#Search HistoryResultsDisplay
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*estrogen replacement therapy/
3200 Display
 
 

Let's look at the "Search History" above, to see how our first search is displayed on the screen:

# = set number 1
Each search is given a set number.

*estrogen replacement therapy
"Estrogen Replacement Therapy" is the official MeSH term for our topic. The * represents the fact that we implemented the FOCUS command for this search.

Results = number of references/citations in the database
In this case, we retrieved 3200 citations.

Display = links to the retrieved citations



Enter Keyword or phrase:Map Term to Subject Heading

Now we can begin looking for the second piece of the search topic. Remember that we're searching for the risk of heart diseases in postmenopausal women who are undergoing estrogen replacement therapy.

We've already searched for the estrogen replacement therapy piece, so let's search for the heart diseases piece.

Type heart diseases in the ENTER KEYWORD box and press the PERFORM SEARCH button.

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