BUMC MEDLINE Plus/OVID Tutorial

Boston University Medical Center
Alumni Medical Library

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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
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
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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That concludes the first part of our search. The results are displayed below, in the Search History box.

Let's look at how the decisions we made during our first search are displayed on the screen:

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

*Estrogen replacement therapy
The * represents the fact that we implemented the FOCUS command for this search.

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

Display = links to the retrieved citations

#Search HistoryResultsDisplay
1
*estrogen replacement therapy/
3200 Display
 
 

Now you 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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