http://davidrothman.net/2009/08/18/awesome-medlib-blog-pubmed-search-strategies/ Health Information | Geekery Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:42:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://davidrothman.net/2009/08/18/awesome-medlib-blog-pubmed-search-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-202452 Christina Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:46:23 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2655#comment-202452 This is... AWESOME!!! This is… AWESOME!!!

]]> http://davidrothman.net/2009/08/18/awesome-medlib-blog-pubmed-search-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-202248 Michelle Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:43:53 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2655#comment-202248 Very cool. Very cool.

]]> http://davidrothman.net/2009/08/18/awesome-medlib-blog-pubmed-search-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-202212 Ardis Weiss Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:27:28 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2655#comment-202212 Am I missing something? I'm not sure the extensive free text searching is worthwhile for many of the common terms and limiters she covers - at least as applies to Medline/PubMed. for Google, sure. But for PubMed, which already has limiters for Male and Female, etc... (And king OR kings OR duke* or prince or princes? Huh??? You'll get Martin Luther King, Jr. Medical Center, or Duke University or Prince Edward Island. I can't imagine ever finding an abstract or title in PubMed about a study on nobility. Why not include "czar OR czars OR tzar OR tzars" as well?! I will admit that some of the term strings could be useful - I wasn't familiar with the term abbatoir, French for slaughterhouse - possibly useful for searching the Canadian literature regarding the meat packing industry (as per Dr. Schmidt's example. Am I missing something? I’m not sure the extensive free text searching is worthwhile for many of the common terms and limiters she covers – at least as applies to Medline/PubMed. for Google, sure. But for PubMed, which already has limiters for Male and Female, etc… (And king OR kings OR duke* or prince or princes? Huh??? You’ll get Martin Luther King, Jr. Medical Center, or Duke University or Prince Edward Island. I can’t imagine ever finding an abstract or title in PubMed about a study on nobility. Why not include “czar OR czars OR tzar OR tzars” as well?! I will admit that some of the term strings could be useful – I wasn’t familiar with the term abbatoir, French for slaughterhouse – possibly useful for searching the Canadian literature regarding the meat packing industry (as per Dr. Schmidt’s example.

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