PubMed Clinical Queries
The
PubMed Clinical Queries
screen uses the eight Haynes systematic queries (Therapy, Diagnosis, Etiology, Prognosis).
You enter your search term in the box, and then select which filter you wish to run. This
is the quickest way to run a systematic filter, but it does not allow any other type of
searching. You could type in multiple sclerosis and select Therapy and Specificity to perform a fairly focussed
search for articles on the treatment of multiple sclerosis, as shown below.
PubMed maps this search to the appropriate MeSH term, and also combines it
(using Boolean OR) with a textword search: -
"multiple
sclerosis"[MeSH Terms] OR multiple sclerosis[Text Word]
This
subject search is then combined with whichever of the eight systematic searches you have
selected, using the Boolean AND operator.
The
biggest problem you will encounter with using this screen is when your search does not map
accurately to the appropriate MeSH terms. You may not realise this has not occurred
(unless you routinely check the search details), and PubMed does not inform you of the
problem. You will then effectively only be running a textword search as your subject
search.
If you are
confident that the term you are entering is the appropriate MeSH term, then this screen is
a very fast way of running a combined subject and systematic search. For all other types
of search use the Advanced
PubMed interface. |
