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Overview 1

Mapping

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MeSH Tree

Explode

Focus

Combining (AND, OR)

Combining Overview

Limiting

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LIMITING
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Not every concept or key component of our clinical question is a subject search or MeSH term.

Concepts such as:

gender

age groups

human VS. animal studies

English and other languages

publication types

publication years

are known as LIMIT OPTIONS or LIMITERS.

We apply these limit options to our search after we have searched for the basic concepts and combined them together.