WHSC Library Search Hedges
Misc. Search Filters
| PubMed |
Humans (retrieves studies indexed with Humans or Humans & Animals) |
NOT ("animals"[MeSH Terms] NOT "humans"[MeSH Terms]) |
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MeSH (retrieves only citations that have been indexed with MeSH) |
medline[sb] | |
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Adults (retrieves articles with Adult Mesh terms alone, with both Adult and Children, or with no mesh terms (yet) |
NOT (("child"[MeSH Terms] OR "Infant"[MeSH Terms] OR "Adolescent"[MeSH Terms]) NOT "adult"[MeSH Terms]) | |
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(AIDS, Bioethics, Cancer, Complementary Med, Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology, Dietary Supplements, History of Med., Space Life Sciences, Systematic Reviews, Toxicology, Veterinary Science)
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NOTE: UPDATE FROM NLM (MARCH 2021): Selected Queries No Longer Updated |
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Excluding Animal Studies From McGill University Health Centre Libraries
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Hispanic/Latinx Search Hedges From the Medical Library Association Latinx Caucus.
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Immigrant Populations PubMed Search Filters Wafford QE, Miller CH, Wescott AB, Kubilius RK. Meeting a need: development and validation of PubMed search filters for immigrant populations. J Med Libr Assoc. 2024 Jan 16;112(1):22-32. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2024.1716. PMID: 38911528; PMCID: PMC11189137.
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The InterTASC Information Specialists' Sub-Group Search Filter Resource A collaborative venture to identify, assess and test search filters designed to retrieve research by study design or focus.
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LGBTQIA+ Links to WHSC Library LGBTQIA+ research guide
Shortcuts & Tools
| Search 101 - SR Database Cheat Sheet | Google Doc |
| Strings Attached: CADTH's Database Search Filters |
Search filters developed and maintained by CADTH’s (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health) Information Services Filters Working Group.
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| Polyglot Search Translator |
From the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare/Systematic Review Accelerator
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| BalanceBraces |
Balance braces, parentheses, brackets, and tags in your code
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| Embase Query Translator |
"Type or paste a PubMed query and then review the Embase translation. Different highlighting will be applied depending on the mapping between MeSH to Emtree and based on the impact on the query."
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| MEDLINE Transpose |
"Translate a search query between Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed syntax."
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| MeSH on Demand |
"MeSH on Demand identifies MeSH® terms in your submitted text (abstract or manuscript). It also lists PubMed similar articles relevant to your submitted text."
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| PubMed Pub ReMiner |
Text mining tool for PubMed.
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| PubMed Search Strategies Blog |
Curated lists of synonyms in MeSH and EMTREE databases for multiple diseases and conditions.
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| SWIFT-Review |
"SWIFT-Review (“Sciome Workbench for Interactive computer-Facilitated Text-mining”) is a freely available interactive workbench which provides numerous tools to assist with problem formulation and literature prioritization."
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| World Bank Country and Lending Groups (LMICs by income level) | |
| Yale MeSH Analyzer | "A MeSH analysis grid can help identify the problems in your search strategy by presenting the ways articles are indexed in the MEDLINE database in an easy-to-scan tabular format." |
Searching Methodologies
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Searching the Grey Literature
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eBook and print at Robert W. Woodruff Library Z1033 .G73 B66 2018
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Optimal database combinations for literature searches in systematic reviews: a prospective exploratory study.Bramer WM, Rethlefsen ML, Kleijnen J, Franco OH. Syst Rev. 2017 Dec 6;6(1):245 PMID: 29208034
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A systematic approach to searching: an efficient and complete method to develop literature searches.Bramer WM, de Jonge GB, Rethlefsen ML, Mast F, Kleijnen J. J Med Libr Assoc. 2018 Oct; 106(4): 531–541.
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PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA Statement for Reporting Literature Searches in Systematic ReviewsRethlefsen, M. L., Kirtley, S., Waffenschmidt, S., Ayala, A. P., Moher, D., Page, M. J., Koffel, J. B., & PRISMA-S Group (2021). Systematic reviews, 10(1), 39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-020-01542-z