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])
MeSH (retrieves only citations that have been indexed with MeSH)
medline[sb]
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])
LGBTQIA+ from the WHSC Library LGBTQIA+ research guide
Health Disparities and Minority Health Search Strategy - Last updated May 2019
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.
PubMed Topic-Specific Queries (AIDS, Bioethics, Cancer, Complementary Med, Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology, Dietary Supplements, History of Med., Space Life Sciences, Systematic Reviews, Toxicology, Veterinary Science) MARCH 2021 UPDATE FROM NLM: Selected Queries No Longer Updated
- Excluding Animal StudiesFrom McGill University Health Centre Libraries
- Hispanic/Latinx Search HedgesFrom the Medical Library Association Latinx Caucus.
Shortcuts & Tools
- Strings Attached: CADTH's Database Search FiltersSearch filters developed and maintained by CADTH’s (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health) Information Services Filters Working Group.
- Polyglot Search TranslatorFrom the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare/Systematic Review Accelerator
- BalanceBracesBalance braces, parentheses, brackets, and tags in your code
- MEDLINE Transpose"Translate a search query between Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed syntax."
- 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."
- PubMed Pub ReMinerText mining tool for PubMed.
- PubMed Search StrategiesCurated lists of synonyms in MeSH and EMTREE databases for multiple diseases and conditions.
- 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."
Searching Methodologies
Searching the Grey Literature by eBook and print at Robert W. Woodruff Library Z1033 .G73 B66 2018
- 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
- 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.
- 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