Tutorial Instructions Searchable Questions About MEDLINE Keyword/Textword Searching Medical Subject Headings Overview 1 Mapping Subheadings MeSH Tree Explode Focus Combining (AND, OR) Combining Overview Limiting Displaying Results Full Text Articles Printing/E-Mailing/Saving Ordering Articles
We know that we want the correlation between estrogen replacement therapy AND heart diseases, so we should combine these concepts using the boolean AND.
In BUMC MEDLINE Plus/OVID, we combine using the set numbers. In this case, we will combine 1 and 2.
There are two ways to combine: