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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



SEARCHABLE QUESTIONS
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Developing your search strategy is the process of:

  1. Formulating your question

  2. Selecting the best Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) or terms to describe your topic

  3. Combining the terms or sets

  4. Limiting your retrieval to appropriate references or citations (i.e., English language, human, age groups, years of publication, publication types, etc.)

  5. Viewing and evaluating the retrieval

  6. Printing or downloading relevant citations