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*Nursing & Health: Searching PubMed

Searching PubMed - Key things to remember

  • Be specific:  the more terms you enter, the narrower your search will be with fewer irrelevant results to wade through.

  • Use no punctuation:  (ex. no quote marks) pubmed will find phrases for you.

  • Use no operators:  pubmed will add AND between your search terms

  • Use no tags:  pubmed will differentiate topic words, journal titles and author names

Using filters

Other useful filters include:

  • Sex
  • Subjects
  • Journal categories
  • Ages
  • Species

 

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