To search for life span in Medline (PubMed syntax)
"Longevity"[Mesh] OR "Life Expectancy"[Mesh]
Monday, March 11, 2013
Friday, March 8, 2013
High Cholesterol
The problem with high cholesterol is that it's not a disease. It's kind of a symptom, kind of a blood chemical, kind of a chronic disease - kind of a pain!
"Cholesterol/blood"[Mesh] OR "Hypercholesterolemia"[Mesh]
or depending on your search, you might use:
"Cholesterol"[Mesh] OR "Hypercholesterolemia"[Mesh]
"Cholesterol/blood"[Mesh] OR "Hypercholesterolemia"[Mesh]
or depending on your search, you might use:
"Cholesterol"[Mesh] OR "Hypercholesterolemia"[Mesh]
Friday, February 22, 2013
Postoperative Care
Here is what you find if you search Postoperative in the MeSH database:
Postoperative Care
Postoperative Period
Postoperative Complications (with narrower terms)
But when you search the same in CINAHL, it also suggests:
Aftercare
And when I searched it in the MeSH database, it exists!
So you can do this search:
Medline (PubMed)
"Postoperative Care"[Mesh] OR "Postoperative Period"[Mesh] OR "Postoperative Complications"[Mesh] OR "Aftercare"[Mesh]
CINAHL:
MH "Postoperative Period" OR MH "Postoperative Care+" OR MH "Postoperative Complications+" OR MH "Aftercare"
Yay...
EMBASE:
exp postoperative period/ OR exp postoperative complication/ OR exp aftercare/
postoperative period includes postoperative care as well as other narrower terms. Postoperative complication has many narrower terms.
Postoperative Care
Postoperative Period
Postoperative Complications (with narrower terms)
But when you search the same in CINAHL, it also suggests:
Aftercare
And when I searched it in the MeSH database, it exists!
So you can do this search:
Medline (PubMed)
"Postoperative Care"[Mesh] OR "Postoperative Period"[Mesh] OR "Postoperative Complications"[Mesh] OR "Aftercare"[Mesh]
CINAHL:
MH "Postoperative Period" OR MH "Postoperative Care+" OR MH "Postoperative Complications+" OR MH "Aftercare"
Yay...
EMBASE:
exp postoperative period/ OR exp postoperative complication/ OR exp aftercare/
postoperative period includes postoperative care as well as other narrower terms. Postoperative complication has many narrower terms.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Graft Restenosis
OK, now I swear yesterday, when I typed "graft restenosis" into the MeSH database, I got no results. Today, I typed it in, and I got one of the two relevant MeSH terms (Graft Occlusion, Vascular). Grr! Well, I've started this post anyway, so here goes.
I was asked to do a search for "coronary artery bypass graft re-stenosis". Here is my final search strategy:
"Coronary Artery Bypass"[MeSH]
AND
"Graft Occlusion, Vascular"[Mesh] OR "Coronary Restenosis"[Mesh]
plus some other stuff unique to this question. The point of posting this is that "Coronary Restenosis" is a synonym of "Graft Occlusion, Vascular", at least for the purposes of this search, but is not as readily found in the MeSH database.
I was asked to do a search for "coronary artery bypass graft re-stenosis". Here is my final search strategy:
"Coronary Artery Bypass"[MeSH]
AND
"Graft Occlusion, Vascular"[Mesh] OR "Coronary Restenosis"[Mesh]
plus some other stuff unique to this question. The point of posting this is that "Coronary Restenosis" is a synonym of "Graft Occlusion, Vascular", at least for the purposes of this search, but is not as readily found in the MeSH database.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Reason #6000 that I hate the PubMed sidebar
OK, what on earth has happened to the Languages filter in the PubMed sidebar? Over the last week or so, it is no longer one of the default filters - instead you have to select it from the Show additional filters list. Like I have that kind of time!
I think this ranks even higher than my previous complaint about each click on the sidebar corresponding to a single line in the history. This is annoying because if you have to select a whole bunch of publication types, each one takes up a whole line in the search history, and if you're doing a long search, if you get beyond 100 lines in your search history, the first search lines start disappearing. So each line in the history is precious!
However, there is a fairly easy fix for that - just make your own copy-and-paste search strategies for PubMed. Here are some of mine:
It's annoying to have to copy and paste in the canned strategies, yes. But the thing that makes the Languages filter problem so much worse is that it's really a no-brainer. Did someone click the wrong button, or what?
I think this ranks even higher than my previous complaint about each click on the sidebar corresponding to a single line in the history. This is annoying because if you have to select a whole bunch of publication types, each one takes up a whole line in the search history, and if you're doing a long search, if you get beyond 100 lines in your search history, the first search lines start disappearing. So each line in the history is precious!
However, there is a fairly easy fix for that - just make your own copy-and-paste search strategies for PubMed. Here are some of mine:
Reviews
& Guidelines
Review[ptyp] OR systematic[sb] OR Guideline[ptyp]
Guidelines
Guideline[ptyp] OR "Consensus Development Conference"[ptyp]
All types
of studies including case reports:
"Study Characteristics"[ptyp]
Trials
and Studies – no case reports
"Clinical Trial"[ptyp] OR "Comparative
Study"[ptyp] OR "Evaluation Studies"[ptyp] OR
"Meta-Analysis"[ptyp] OR "Twin Study"[ptyp] OR
"Validation Studies"[ptyp]
It's annoying to have to copy and paste in the canned strategies, yes. But the thing that makes the Languages filter problem so much worse is that it's really a no-brainer. Did someone click the wrong button, or what?
Monday, December 3, 2012
Nonalcoholic beer
"near beer"[all fields] OR "non alcoholic beer"[all fields] OR "nonalcoholic beer"[all fields] OR "no alcohol beer"[all fields] OR "low alcohol beer"[all fields]
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