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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



MAPPING
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Let's try a search in MEDLINE. Remember that our research question is:

What are the risks of heart diseases in postmenopausal women receiving estrogen replacement therapy?

Searchers can only work with one MeSH concept at a time, so let's begin with the concept of "estrogen replacement therapy".

MEDLINE SEARCHING EXERCISE

  1. Click on the "View the Sample Screen" icon below.

  2. Type in the term "estrogen replacement" in the box labeled   "Enter keyword or phrase".

  3. Click on the PERFORM SEARCH button.