Smart Database Searching Richard Nollan Associate Professor UT Health Sciences Library
PubMed on Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed EMBASE EBM HaPI IPA PsycINFO
Strategy Textword searching –Immediate gratification –Synonymy Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) –Well-defined searches –Completeness
Ovid Search Page
Laptop Burns
Laptop Burn Results
Mapping to MeSH
Subheadings
Tylenol subheads
HB & Tylenol
Features
Limits Publication Types Subject Subsets (AIDS, history, cancer) Clinical Queries Language Age Gender Journal Subsets (Core clinical, bioethics)