Tuesday, April 17, 2018

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.

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