Mortality and Life Expectancy

Most important thing about mortality is to use the subheading. You will get lots more results with that. Really the other stuff gets superfluous, but we use it anyway just in case.

"Disease name/mortality"[Mesh] OR ("Disease Name"[Mesh] AND ("Mortality"[Mesh] OR "Life Expectancy"[Mesh] OR "Longevity"[Mesh] OR "Survival Rate"[Mesh] OR "Survival"[Mesh]))

if you can't do that:
mortality[subheading] OR "Mortality"[Mesh] OR "Life Expectancy"[Mesh] OR "Longevity"[Mesh] OR "Survival Rate"[Mesh] OR "Survival"[Mesh]

Don't use "Survival Analysis"[Mesh] because this is something else entirely.

EMBASE:

exp mortality/ or exp survival/ or exp longevity/ or exp lifespan/

Plus keywords:
(mortalit* or survival or longevit* or life span* or lifespan* or life expectan*).ti,ab.

And if you're really desperate:
(die or died or dying or death).ti,ab.

Leave off that first one if you're searching on deep infiltrating endometriosis, though. Because of the dumbest acronym ever.

Treatment beyond therapy

So, every once in a while I do a search using "therapy"[subheading], and get some results but not as many as I wanted. Then I have the "bright" idea of trying some other MeSH terms. I mean, maybe sometimes the indexers forget to put therapy as a subheading, or maybe the rule of three applied, or something like that. Right?

So, then I go through a labourious process of finding other relevant MeSH. Basically this involves thinking of treatments and searching them in the MeSH database and then looking at the broader terms.

Here's what I come up with:

"Treatment Outcome"[Mesh] OR "Therapeutic Uses"[Mesh] OR "Pharmaceutical Preparations"[Mesh] OR "Therapeutics"[Mesh] OR "Mental Health Services"[Mesh] OR "Psychiatric Somatic Therapies"[Mesh] OR "Psychotherapy"[Mesh]

So then I take that and combine it with the rest of my search, and use NOT to get rid of the "therapy"[subheading] articles which I've already looked at.

Guess what? So far, every single time, it's added nothing to the search. This time, I got a couple of articles about chemicals which are used as therapies but are also endogenous compounds, and in this case there are some articles about how their regulation affects the disease. Fits the search strategy, but completely irrelevant.

But who knows, in a few months I'll probably try it again. Einstein had a saying about this kind of behaviour...

College/University Students

Medline:

"Students"[Mesh]
Narrower terms are "Student Dropouts" and "Students, Health Occupations" - nothing about the level. You might wish to NoExp on the Students part if you're interested in college/university students in general rather than medical or nursing students.

There's also "Student Health Services"[Mesh]

Combine with:

"Universities"[Mesh] OR colleg*[tiab] OR universit*[tiab] OR postsecondary[tiab] OR post-secondary[tiab] OR undergraduate*[tiab] OR campus*[tiab] OR graduate[tiab] OR postgraduate*[tiab] OR post-graduate*[tiab] OR "higher education"[tiab] OR tertiary[tiab]


CINAHL:

MH "Student Health Services" OR MH "Students" OR MH "Students, Disabled" OR MH "Students, Foreign" OR MH "Students, Minority"
AND
MH "College and Universities+" OR TI (universit* OR postsecondary OR post-secondary OR undergraduate* OR campus* OR graduate OR postgraduate* OR post-graduate* OR "higher education" OR tertiary) OR AB (universit* OR postsecondary OR post-secondary OR undergraduate* OR campus* OR graduate OR postgraduate* OR post-graduate* OR "higher education" OR tertiary)
OR

MH "Students, College" OR MH "Students, Graduate+" OR MH "Students, Undergraduate"

You may or may not wish to include:

MH "Students, Health Occupations+" OR MH "Students, Pre-Nursing"