How to Do a Subject\nSearch in PubMedEllen Rogo, RDHRuiling Guo, MLIS
The internet is an important source of medical knowledge for everyone, from laypeople to medical professionals. We investigate how these two extremes, in terms of user groups, have distinct needs and exhibit significantly different search behaviour. We make use of query logs in order to study vari...
queryboxonthemainPubMedpage. Preview/Index2 Previewwillshowthelastthreesearchterms andtheresultswithsetnumbersindicatedby the#symbol. Preview/Index3 IndexallowsyoutoquerythePubMed databaseandseealltheoccurrencesofaterm andthenumberofrecordsinthedatabase. ...
Hence, although they are accessible 24 hours a day/7 days a week and somewhat easier to use, they Formulate a Search Strategy Once a question is formulated with a list of potential key words and subject headings, next a search strategy needs to be formulated. The terms one uses in ...
10 Legal Ways to Learn How to Download Research Papers for Free? The Ultimate Guide 1. Leverage Open Access Databases Open-access databases are treasure troves of freely available scholarly articles. Here are some of the best options: PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of journ...
The general flow of information within an abstract moves from background, to methods, to results, and finally to conclusions. These sections may or may not be titled within an abstract, and publishers may use slightly different terms in their author guidelines, for example “introduction” instead...
Search Strategy PubMed, Embase and PsycINFO were searched for English-language articles published 1st January 1980 to 31st October 2018 reporting on sexual behaviour among FSW (see Supplement A for full search terms). The screening of identified records was conducted by only one reviewer; with BNO...
We asked what actions they would take, in terms that could be compared with CDC recommendations. We randomized the participants to receive either no instructions, the FDA-authorized instructions accompanying the test kits, or instructions designed following decision science principles. Methods This study...
(n = 6935), as many of the studies were irrelevant (e.g. beyond our area and scope of interest, Fig.1: Initial search). We therefore focused the search by limiting the results to articles which were indexed with any of four highly discriminating methodological MeSH terms: qualitative ...
A search string was developed to find relevant articles in PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Google Scholar (provided assupplementary material). After conducting database searches, titles and abstracts of the records were exported to the software Covidence (https://www.covidence.org/) for remo...