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Medicine: Medline Search Example

Define your topic, identify your search terms and build your search

  • Accurately describe your topic. Be careful not to include to many concepts.
    • Use of grommets in children with recurrent ear infections to prevent hearing loss
  • Identify your potential search terms and brake it down to individual concepts
    • First concept: Grommets
    • Second concept: Recurrent Ear Infections
    • Third concept: Hearing Loss
    • Fourth Concept: Child
  • Identify MESH Headings for your search - Use Term Finder - Build your search with MESH headings and Keywords
    • Grommets = Middle Ear Ventilation/ OR grommet*
    • Ear Infections = Otitis/ OR middle ear infections
    • Hearing Loss = Hearing Loss/ OR hearing loss
    • Child = exp Child/ OR Infant/ OR Child* OR p?ediatrics
  • Combine the the different concepts with AND

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