Transplant or immunocompromised patients

PubMed:


"Immunocompromised Host"[Mesh] OR "Immunocompetence"[Mesh]  OR "Immunosuppression"[Mesh] OR "Immunosuppressive Agents"[Mesh] OR "Transplantation"[Mesh] OR "Transplants"[Mesh]

EMBASE:


exp immunocompromised patient/ OR exp immunocompetence/ OR exp immunosuppressive treatment/ OR exp immunosuppressive agent/ OR exp transplantation/ OR exp graft recipient/

Visual impairments

Visual impairments in PubMed:

"Vision Disorders"[Mesh] OR "Eye Diseases"[Mesh]

and, depending on your search, you may also wish to search for:

"Visual Acuity"[Mesh]

Replacement for Highlight All in Office 2010

When we first got Office 2010 at work, I quickly discovered that "Highlight All" was no longer available with Ctrl-F.

The Find option would find all of the instances of a particular word within the text, but as soon as one clicked on the text itself or attempted to make a change (say, change the text colour), all the Found words were lost. It wasn't possible to Find, and then make a change to all those instances of the found word.

Tragedy! Highlight All was supremely useful for finding important words in long bibliographies, especially where there were synonyms. For instance, if I were looking for articles related to the geriatric population, I might search for geriatric, gerontol, elder, older, oldest, senior, and so forth. I could highlight each synonym in the text, and turn each a different colour: red, orange, blue, etc... and then go through the list, finding my chosen words at a mere glance. I could take a closer look at words with other possible meanings (older, senior) when I saw their colours, and identify articles of high relevance due to the prevalence of certain colours in the title and abstract.

All this functionality disappeared when my workplace switched to Office 2010, and no one on the internet had a solution - everyone just said that it was no longer possible. I emailed Microsoft Office's support people, but they didn't have any solutions, either.

However, my colleague has just shown me how to get the same functionality with a different procedure!

1. In your document, go to Ctrl-H, or Replace in the Edit menu.
2. In the Find field, type in the word that you want to highlight, e.g. geriatric.
3. Click in the Replace With field to place your cursor there. This step is very important!
4. Click the More button
5. Under the Replace section, click on the Format button and choose Font.
6. Make any selections that you like, e.g., Font Colour: Red or Font Style: Bold.
7. Click the OK button to save your selections and go back to the "Find and Replace" dialogue box.
8. Click the Replace All button to apply your changes to the text.
9. Repeat steps 2-8 for each word that you want to highlight.
10. Click the Cancel button when you are done.

Now all of your words will be highlighted in the colours and/or styles that you chose!

Even better, this also works when composing emails in Outlook, so you can highlight words in bibliographies that you send to patrons.

I hope this streamlines your workload as much as it will mine.

(Colossal thanks to my colleague, Karen, for showing me how to do this! I've been without this functionality for a year and a half and it is brilliant to get it back again.)

PS: If you mess up and accidentally make the Find what field red and bold rather than the Replace with field, you can click on the No Formatting button to reset yourself.

Critical Care

PubMed:

"Critical Care"[Mesh] OR "Intensive Care Units"[Mesh] OR "Critical Illness"[Mesh] OR "Life Support Care"[Mesh]

If you are looking for absolutely everything, or want In Process articles, you can also add:
"critical care"[tiab] OR "intensive care"[tiab] OR "life support"[tiab] OR "close support"[tiab] OR "critically ill"[tiab] OR "critical illness"[tiab] OR icu[tiab] OR "critical unit"[tiab] OR "critical units"[tiab] OR "intensive unit"[tiab] OR "intensive units"[tiab]

EMBASE:

exp intensive care/ OR exp intensive care unit/ OR exp critical illness/ OR exp critically ill patient/

CINAHL:

MH "Critical Care+" OR MH "Critical Care Nursing+" OR MH "Critical Illness+" OR MH "Critically Ill Patients+"

Thanks to my colleague, Karen, for the suggestion of "close support"[tiab].