Friday, May 20, 2016

Long term use of a drug

In 2016, the term "Long Term Adverse Effects" was added to MeSH! Hooray!

However, we still need to be able to find articles pre-2016 indexing. Here are some strategies:

"Time Factors"[Mesh] (previous indexing for the concept of long term)

"Prescription Drug Overuse"[Mesh]


Keywords:
"long term"[tiab] OR "chronic use"[tiab] OR "chronic usage"[tiab] OR "prolonged use"[tiab] OR "prolonged usage"[tiab] OR longterm[tiab] OR long-time[tiab] OR longtime[tiab] OR longstanding[tiab] OR long-standing[tiab] OR "prolonged utilization"[tiab] OR "prolonged utilisation"[tiab] OR "chronic use"[tiab] OR "chronic usage"[tiab] OR "chronic utilization"[tiab] OR "chronic utilisation"[tiab] OR "chronic effect"[tiab] OR "chronic effects"[tiab]

You can also add the name of the drug in question, e.g.:
"chronic benzodiazepine"[tiab] OR "chronic benzodiazepines"[tiab] OR "prolonged benzodiazepine"[tiab] OR "prolonged benzodiazepines"[tiab]
or
"chronic melatonin"[tiab] OR "prolonged melatonin"[tiab]

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