General Search Concepts 2

2. Combining the Systematic and the Subject Searches

If we look at the table below, we can see how to answer the clinical question, 'How do I diagnose condition X?"

	First half	Second half
Question	How do I diagnose?	condition X
Search Strategy	Systematic search which finds all of the diagnostic methods for all conditions	Map to MeSH + textword search
Search Result	DIAGNOSIS	CONDITION X
Answer	DIAGNOSIS AND CONDITION X