What will you learn during this PubMed course?

You will learn to:

- how to turn your search question into terms in PubMed.

- Determine the concepts needed to be combined in your search equations

- use the boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) and include or exclude text words or subject headings terms [MeSH] to refine search results.

- use field tags to search titles and abstracts

- use filters in PubMed to identify "randomized clinical trials", "systematic reviews", limit results to "specific dates" or exclude human/animal studies.  

-avoid common mistakes (too narrow or few results and too broad or irrelevant results).

- create an alert to your search queries and document your literature searches.
 

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