| Ovid
Tutorial 2.0 |
| University
of South Alabama Biomedical Library |
Developing your search strategy
Developing your search strategy is the process of:
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Formulating your question
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Choosing the appropriate database
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Selecting the best Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) or terms to describe
your topic
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Combing the terms or sets
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Limiting your retrieval to appropriate references.
The key features of a search strategy are:
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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
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Explode
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Focus
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Subheadings
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Textwords
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Boolean logic (AND, OR, and NOT)
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Limits
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