Search tips
- Using only one term can bring back a large number of results, so think of additional terms to help qualify the search e.g. asthma and steroids.
- Phrase searching is achieved by placing the phrase within quotation marks.
- In addition to Boolean searching you can also use brackets to enhance the search e.g. ‘(measles OR mumps) and pregnancy’
- A search term can be stemmed by using the ‘*’ e.g. ‘cancer*’ will find cancer, cancerous etc.
- On the results page you can filter your results based on an evidence based medicine hierarchy e.g. clinical guidelines, systematic reviews. Use the ‘Filter by’ function on the right-hand side of the screen.
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