MEDLINE Practice
Questions: Suggested Answers
1. Protocol for postoperative pain management in the
elderly
Type in postoperative pain
Select Pain,
Postoperative from the list presented
Select All Documents
Select these subheadings: Drug Therapy, Nursing, Prevention & Control,
Therapy
Do a Textword search for protocol or protocols (using
truncation)
Combine the sets
Limit the set to Age Groups <Aged
65 and over> OR Aged, 80 and over
Exit the Limit menu
Your search results should look like this:
pain,
postoperative/dt,nu,pc,th
protocol$1.tw. (or protocol:1.tw.)
1
and 2
limit 3 to ("<aged 65 and over>" or "aged,
80 and over")
2. Moped injuries
Type in moped (you will be mapped to motorcycles, which is too broad)
Cancel the search and change to Textword search for moped or mopeds
(using truncation)
Type in injuries
Select Wounds and Injuries
Explode the term Wounds and Injuries
Select All Documents and
Include All Subheadings
Combine the sets
Your search
results should look like this:
moped$1.tw.
exp "wounds and
injuries"/
1 and 2
A more advanced way to cover the
injury aspect would be to use the Injuries subheading (in) as a Floating
Subheading . There is no menu command for floating subheadings; they must
be entered in the abbreviated form on the Main Menu screen at the subject
prompt.
In this case you would type in.fs. at the subject
prompt. Your search results should look like this:
moped$1.tw.
in.fs.
1 and 2
3. Falls in
nursing homes
Type in falls
Select Accidental Falls
Select
All Documents and Include All Subheadings
Type in nursing homes
Explode the term Nursing Homes
Select All Documents and Include All
Subheadings
Combine the sets
Your search results should
look like this:
accidental falls/
exp nursing homes/
1
and 2
4. Adenosine therapy for
supraventricular tachycardia
Type in supraventricular
tachycardia
Select tachycardia, supraventricular
Select All
documents
Select the subheading Drug Therapy
Type in adenosine
Select adenosine
Select All Documents and Include All
Subheadings
Combine the sets
Your search results should
look like this:
tachycardia, supraventricular/dt
adenosine/
1 and 2
5. Shared governance
Type shared governance (suggested headings not helpful)
Change
to Textword search
Your search results should look like this:
shared governance.tw.
6.
Epidemiology of heart attacks in men
Type in heart attacks
Select Myocardial Infarction
Select Restrict to Focus
Select the
subheading Epidemiology
Limit the set to Male and Human
Exit the
Limit menu
Your search results should look like this:
*myocardial infarction/ep
limit 1 to male (does not eliminate
articles discussing both men and women)
limit 2 to human
Another way to limit the seach to men would be to first limit the search
to Female, then use the NOT command to remove those from the original set.
This would eliminate any articles discussing both men and women.
Your search results should look like this:
*myocardial
infarction/ep
limit 1 to female
1 not 2
limit 3 to
human
7. "Oregon plan"
Type in oregon plan (suggested headings are not helpful)
Change to
Textword search
Your search results should look like this:
oregon plan.tw.
8. "Prior
pain experience" in article title
Select Search from the
top menu
Select Individual fields
Select Title
Type prior
pain experience
Your search results should look like this:
prior pain experience.ti.
9. List
of articles in JAMA in 1999
Select Journal from the bottom menu
Type in jama Select JAMA from the list
Limit to Publication Year
1999
Exit the Limit menu
Your search results should look
like this:
jama.jn.
limit 1 to yr=1999
10. Glove study by Denise Korniewicz in Heart &
Lung
Select Author from the bottom menu
Type korniewicz d
Select korniewicz d and korniewicz dm
Type in gloves
Select
Gloves, Surgical
Select All Documents and Include All Subheadings
Select Journal from the bottom menu
Type heart & lung
Select Heart & Lung
Combine the sets
Your search
results should look like this:
korniewicz d.au.
korniewicz
dm.au.
1 or 2
gloves, surgical/
heart & lung.jn.
3
and 4 and 5
11. Articles by Indiana
University people in 1998
Select Search from the top menu
Select Individual fields
Select Institution
Type indiana
university
Limit to Publication Year 1995
Exit the Limit menu
Your search results should look like this:
indiana
university.in.
limit 1 to yr=1995
12. Complete citation for GR Cutting in American
Journal of Human Genetics starting on page 307 (Hint: if no year is
specified, consider searching earlier database segments)
Select
Author from the bottom menu
Type in cutting gr
Select cutting gr
Select Journal from the bottom menu
Type american journal of
human genetics
Select American Journal of Human Genetics
Select
Search from the top menu
Select Individual fields
Select Page
Type 307
Combine the sets
Your search results should look
like this:
cutting gr.au. american journal of human genetics.jn.
"307".pg.
1 and 2 and 3
13. Correct citation for Surgery 175(2):151-60
(Hint: consider searching variations of given information when an
incorrect citation is suspected)
Select Search from top menu
Select Individual Fields
Select Volume
Type 175
Select
Search from top menu
Select Individual Fields
Select Issue/Part
Type "2" (include quotation marks whenever you use a number
that is the same as a previously used set number)
Select Search from
top menu
Select Individual Fields
Select Page
Type 151
Select Search from top menu
Select Individual Fields
Select
Journal Word
Type surgery
Combine sets
Your search
results should look like this:
"175".vo.
"2".ip.
"151".pg.
surgery.jw.
1 and 2
and 3 and 4
14. 1986 article with
"school health initiative" in title
If you are not in
the correct database segment, change databases
Select Search from top
menu
Select Individual Fields
Select Title
Type school
health initiative
(In this example, only one article is retrieved. If
there were many articles retrieved, you would also want to Limit your
search to Publication Year 86.)
Your search results should look
like this:
school health initiative.ti.
15. Nurse/physician relations
Type nurse
physician relations
Select Interprofessional Relations
Select
All Documents and Include All Subheadings
Type nurses (for a more
comprehensive search, also consider adding Nursing Staff)
Explode the
term Nurses
Select All Documents and Include All Subheadings
Type physicians
Explode the term Physicians
Select All Documents
and Include All Subheadings
Combine sets
Your search
results should look like this:
interprofessional relations/
exp nurses/
exp nursing staff/
exp physicians
1 and (2 or
3) and 4
16. Management of stage D2
prostatic cancer
Type prostatic cancer
Select Prostatic
Neoplasms
Select All Documents
Select the following Subheadings:
Diet Therapy, Drug Therapy, Nursing, Prevention & Control,
Radiotherapy, Surgery, Therapy
Type d2 (maps to dopamine d2 receptors
which is not what you want)
Change to Textword search
Also
doTextword search for d 2 (space between letter and number)
Combine
the Textword sets
Combine the Textword set with the first set
Your search results should look like this:
prostatic
neoplasms/dh,dt,nu,pc,rt,su,th
d2.tw.
d 2.tw.
2 or 3
1
and 4
17. Night terrors or bad dreams in
children or preschool children
Type night terrors (maps to sleep
disorders which is too broad)
Textword is not a choice on the screen,
so cancel search (Press esc) and change to Textword search
Type bad
dreams (maps to sleep disorders which is too broad)
Textword is not a
choice on the screen so cancel search and change to textword search
Type nightmares (maps to dreams which is too broad)
Change to
textword search (which is a choice on the screen)
Combine the three
sets
Limit to Age Groups (Preschool Child, Child)
Exit the Limit
menu
Your search results should look like this:
nightmare$1.tw.
night terror$1.tw.
bad dream$1.tw.
1 or 2
or 3
limit 4 to (preschool child 2 to 5 years> or child 6 to 12
years>)
18. English language articles
on smoking and human pregnancy in 1997
Type smoking
Select
smoking
Select All Documents and Include All Subheadings
Type
pregnancy
Select Pregnancy
Select All Documents and Include All
Subheadings
Combine the sets
Limit to Human, English Language,
and Publication Year 1997
Exit the Limit menu
Your search
results should look like this:
smoking/
pregnancy/
1
and 2
limit 3 to human
limit 4 to english
limit 5 to
yr=1997
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