Soft Tissue Injuries

Because apparently none of the databases explodes these properly.

(To be fair, the Medline ones with /injuries could not be narrower terms of "Soft Tissue Injuries", but still, the ligament and tendon ones could have been added!

"Soft Tissue Injuries"[Mesh] OR "Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries"[Mesh] OR "Tendon Injuries"[Mesh] OR "Muscles/injuries"[Mesh] OR "Ligaments/injuries"[Mesh] OR "Tendons/injuries"[Mesh] OR "Subcutaneous Fat/injuries"[Mesh] OR "Skin/injuries"[Mesh] OR soft tissue injur*[tiab]

EMBASE:

exp soft tissue injury/ or exp muscle injury/ or exp "ligament and tendon injury"/ or exp skin injury/ or soft tissue injur*.mp.

SportDiscus:

DE "SOFT tissue injuries" OR DE "MUSCLE injuries" OR DE "ABDOMINAL muscle injuries" OR DE "CALF muscle injuries" OR DE "HAMSTRING muscle injuries" OR DE "QUADRICEPS muscle injuries" OR DE "SKELETAL muscle injuries" OR DE "TENDON injuries" OR DE "ACHILLES tendon injuries" OR DE "LIGAMENT injuries" OR DE "COLLATERAL ligament injuries" OR DE "CRUCIATE ligament injuries" OR DE "PATELLAR ligament injuries" OR DE "SKIN injuries" OR DE "SKIN ulcers" OR DE "SUNBURN"

Watch out: sometimes when a doctor says "soft tissue injuries", they actually mean whiplash, which is a whole different thing. If you get a chance for a reference interview, it's a good question to ask. Suspect this especially if the question is related to a traffic accident.

Outpatients vs Inpatients

Medline:

Outpatients:

"Outpatients"[Mesh] OR "Outpatient Clinics, Hospital"[Mesh] OR "Ambulatory Care"[Mesh] OR "Ambulatory Care Facilities"[Mesh] OR "Community Health Services"[Mesh] OR "Community Health Centers"[Mesh] OR "Community Health Planning"[Mesh] OR "Community Medicine"[Mesh] OR "Primary Health Care"[Mesh:NoExp] OR "General Practice"[Mesh] OR "House Calls"[Mesh] OR "Day Care, Medical"[Mesh]

Now, some of these terms are narrower terms of Ambulatory Care Facilities. So you may be thinking, why not clean this up a bit? However, sometimes if you go too broad, you lose some of the narrowest terms (see my post about this) so I kept them in just to be sure to get everything.

Keywords: outpatient*[tiab] OR out-patient*[tiab] OR ambulatory[tiab] OR communit*[tiab] OR family practi*[tiab] OR "general practice"[tiab] OR general practitioner*[tiab] OR "primary care"[tiab] OR "primary health care"[tiab] OR "primary healthcare"[tiab] OR "family medicine"[tiab] OR "family health"[tiab] OR "office based"[tiab] OR officebased[tiab]

Additional MesH which may or may not be relevant to your question:
"Ambulatory Surgical Procedures"[Mesh] OR "Community Psychiatry"[Mesh] OR "Community Dentistry"[Mesh] OR "Community Health Workers"[Mesh] OR "Nurses, Community Health"[Mesh] OR "Primary Care Nursing"[Mesh] OR "Physicians, Primary Care"[Mesh] OR "Physicians, Family"[Mesh] OR "General Practitioners"[Mesh]

Nursing Homes and Group Homes are usually considered Outpatient rather than Inpatient, but make the best decision for your question:
"Residential Facilities"[Mesh]

These are sometimes inpatient and sometimes outpatient:
"Residential Treatment"[Mesh] OR "Long-Term Care"[Mesh]

Inpatients:

"Inpatients"[Mesh] OR "Hospitalization"[Mesh] OR "Hospital Units"[Mesh] OR Hospitals[Mesh] OR "Hospital Departments"[Mesh:NoExp] OR "Institutionalization"[Mesh] OR "Child, Hospitalized"[Mesh] OR "Child, Institutionalized"[Mesh] OR "Adolescent, Hospitalized"[Mesh] OR "Adolescent, Institutionalized"[Mesh]

Keywords: inpatient*[tiab] OR in-patient*[tiab] OR hospitaliz*[tiab] OR hospitalis*[tiab] OR residential*[tiab] OR institutionaliz*[tiab] OR institutionalis*[tiab] OR admitted[tiab] OR admission[tiab] OR readmission[tiab]

Additional MeSH which may or may not be relevant to your question:
"Health Facility Environment"[Mesh] OR "Anesthesia Department, Hospital"[Mesh] OR "Cardiology Service, Hospital"[Mesh] OR "Emergency Service, Hospital"[Mesh] OR "Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital"[Mesh] OR "Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital"[Mesh] OR "Oncology Service, Hospital"[Mesh] OR "Psychiatric Department, Hospital"[Mesh] OR "Radiology Department, Hospital"[Mesh] OR "Surgery Department, Hospital"[Mesh] OR "Urology Department, Hospital"[Mesh]

This list does not include all of the departments listed under the MeSH term Hospital Departments – it focusses on the clinical ones. You may wish to check the list to make sure that nothing relevant has been missed.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/?term=hospital+departments

CINAHL:

Outpatients:

MH "Outpatients" OR MH "Outpatient Service" OR MH "Ambulatory Care Facilities+" OR MH "Ambulatory Care" OR MH "Community Health Services+" OR MH "Community Health Centers+" OR MH "Community Medicine" OR MH "Community Living" OR MH "Rehabilitation, Community-Based" OR MH "Primary Health Care" OR MH "Family Practice" OR MH "Home Health Care+" OR MH "Day Care" OR MH "Respite Care"


MH "Ambulatory Surgery" OR MH "Ambulatory Care Nursing" OR MH "Community Health Nursing+" OR MH "Community Health Workers"  OR MH "Physicians, Family" OR MH "Home Nursing"

MH "Residential Facilities+" OR MH "Residential Care" OR MH "Long-Term Care"

Inpatients:

MH "Inpatients" OR MH "Institutionalization+" OR MH "Hospital Units+" OR MH "Hospitals+" OR MH "Health Facility Departments"

MH "Health Facility Environment" OR MH "Anesthesiology Service" OR MH "Emergency Service+" OR MH "Obstetric Service" OR MH "Psychiatric Service" OR  MH "Radiology Service"

Again, I selected the most clinical-sounding Health Facility Departments.

EMBASE:

Outpatients:

exp community care/ OR exp community medicine/ OR exp community living/

exp outpatient/ or exp outpatient department/ or exp community care/ or exp community mental health center/ or exp community medicine/ or exp primary health care/ or exp general practice/ or exp home care/ or exp day care/

exp ambulatory surgery/ or exp social psychiatry/ or exp health auxiliary/ or exp general practitioner/

exp residential home/ or exp residential care/ or long term care/ or exp institutional care/

Inpatients:

exp hospital patient/ or exp hospitalization/ or exp hospital admission/ or exp hospital readmission/ or exp child hospitalization/ or "hospital subdivisions and components"/ or exp hospital/

exp delivery room/ or exp heart center/ or exp hospital department/ or exp operating room/ or exp radiology department/ or exp recovery room/ or exp ward/

Articles by occupational group including unspecified

Sometimes you get a question about a particular healthcare occupation.

Sometimes you can take the associated MeSH term and just add it to your search: AND "Physicians"[Mesh]

However, sometimes, especially for ethical questions, there are lots of good articles which don't specify the occupational group, and you want to include those. Here's where the famous double NOT comes in handy.

Example: Physicians and unspecified:
NOT ("Health Personnel"[Mesh] NOT ("Faculty, Medical"[Mesh] OR "Medical Staff"[Mesh] OR "Physicians"[Mesh]))

For the search I'm doing today, the double NOT search returned 775 articles, whereas "Physicians[Mesh] returned 88 results.

Return to Work

MeSH: "Return to Work" added 2013.

For older articles, Use (return* adj3 work*).ti,ab,kw. and (resum* adj3 work*).ti,ab,kw. in Ovid, as well as (work resumption or job re-entry or job reentry or reemployment or re-employment).ti,ab,kw.

(return* adj3 active duty).ti,ab,kw may also be useful if soldiers are involved.

EMBASE: exp return to work/ or exp work resumption/
(see above for keywords)

CINAHL has MH "Job Re-entry"

PsycInfo has DE "Reemployment"

plus of course: TI return* N3 work* OR AB return* N3 work*

In the Operating Room

Yes, it's that time again! Time for a Settings question!

"Operating Rooms"[Mesh] OR "Surgery Department, Hospital"[Mesh] OR "Intraoperative Complications"[Mesh] OR "Surgical Procedures, Operative"[Mesh]

keywords: "operating room"[tiab] OR "operating rooms"[tiab] OR "operating theatre"[tiab] OR "operating theatres"[tiab] OR "operating theater"[tiab] OR "operating theaters"[tiab] OR "surgical theatre"[tiab] OR "surgical theatres"[tiab] OR "surgical theater"[tiab] OR "surgical theaters"[tiab] OR "surgical room"[tiab] OR "surgical rooms"[tiab] OR "surgical department"[tiab] OR "surgical departments"[tiab] OR "surgical ward"[tiab] OR "surgical wards"[tiab] OR "surgery ward"[tiab] OR "surgery wards"[tiab]


CINAHL:
MH "Operating Rooms" OR MH "Operating Room Personnel+" OR MH "Surgery, Operative+" OR MH "Intraoperative Complications+"

MH "Operating Room Information Systems" - maybe? Depends on your question.

Keywords: operating room* OR operating theat* OR surgical theat* OR surgical room* OR surg* department* or surg* ward*


EMBASE:
exp operating room/ or exp surgical ward/ or exp surgery/ or exp peroperative complication/ or exp operating room personnel/ or exp surgeon/

keywords: 
(operating room* or operating theat* or surgical theat* or surgical room* or surg* department* or surg* ward*).ti,ab.