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How to locate references using database specific controlled vocabulary resources together with free-text terms.
Ovid MEDLINE(R) ALL <1946 to Present>
Ovid Training Team
2024-05-08
Topics
In May 2023 the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially declared “an end to COVID-19 as a public emergency” (1). Nevertheless, the pandemic, during its course and afterwards, has had a substantial impact on people’s physical and mental health. This search strategy aims to identify literature that addresses the impact of covid on people’s psychological wellbeing and overall mental health. Constructed for use in Ovid MEDLINE by the Customer Success Team at Wolters Kluwer Health Learning Research and Practice (WKHLRP), equivalent searches have been similarly constructed for APA PsycInfo and Journals@Ovid. Points to note are as follows.
1. Bibliographic Databases and Controlled Vocabularies: Ovid MEDLINE and APA PyscInfo are both bibliographic databases, also referred to as Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. That is to say, they are highly detailed sources of information about information, the latter in the form of mostly scientific journal articles, but also systematic reviews, controlled trials, conference proceedings etc.
Where possible full-text versions of bibliographic references are made available via included link-out options to full-text repositories, e.g. PMC. A characteristic of bibliographic databases is their use of a controlled vocabulary for both indexing and searching. For Ovid MEDLINE the controlled vocabulary is provided by the Medical Subject Headings thesaurus (MeSH) (2) which maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, is an indispensable aid to detailed and focused searching. Coupled with free-term searching, this bibliographic database offers a reliable means of looking for information on a topic quickly, yet comprehensively.
2. Search Strategy Formats: Line-by-Line or Paragraph-Based: There are differing schools of thought as to how to build a search strategy. Some prefer a line-by-line approach. Others are more inclined to enter the search terms one after another in an ongoing stream, separating out search terms and database instructions using combinations of brackets (parentheses) and Boolean Operators (OR, AND, NOT) – the paragraph approach. Each format has merits and disadvantages. The example given here is a hybrid of the two approaches.
Primary: Michael Fanning
Secondary: Charlotte Viken
Review Date: 2024-05-08
Expiry Date: 2025-05-08
Ovid Training Team
1. WHO chief declares end to COVID-19 as a global health emergency
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136367
2. US NLM Medical Subject Headings – Home Page
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html
1. *covid-19/px or *covid-19 vaccines/px
2. exp psychological phenomena/
3. COVID-19 Vaccines/ or COVID-19/ or COVID-19 Testing/ or COVID-19 Serological Testing/ or SARS-CoV-2/
4. *mental health/ or exp *mental disorders/ or exp *mental processes/ or exp *anxiety disorders/ or exp *"disruptive, impulse control, and conduct disorders"/ or exp *"feeding and eating disorders"/ or exp *mood disorders/ or exp *personality disorders/ or exp *sleep wake disorders/ or exp *substance-related disorders/ or exp *"trauma and stressor related disorders"/ or exp *stress disorders, traumatic/ or hypochondriasis/ or resilience, psychological/ or exp "Feeding and Eating Disorders"/
5. ("Alcohol abus$3" or "alcohol use$2" or Anxiety or Bereavement or Conflict$2 or Compulsion or coping or Cyberchondria or Depression or despair or "disruptive behavior" or Distress or "emotion regulation" or "financial strain" or Hypochondriasis or Isolation or Loneliness or "mental health" or mental or Mood or Obsession or "obsessive-compulsive" or "obsessive compulsive disorder" or overwhelmed or Panic or Posttraumatic or "Post trauma$3" or "prolonged grief" or Psychiatric or "psychiatric disorder" or "psychological well-being" or Psychologic or "psychological impact" or psychoses or psychosis or Ptsd or resilience or resilient or "social isolation" or Stress$3 or "substance use" or "Substance abuse" or Suicide or Suicidal or telepsychiatry or traumatic or violence or worry or "food security" or "community psychology" or fear or "self-harm" or bereavement or "death wish" or "sleep-wake disorder$1" or grief or "poor-sleep" or burnout or trichotillomania or mania$1 or traumatization or coronaphobia or phobia$1 or "impulse control" or "social support" or "moral distress" or "eating disorder$1").ti,kw.
6. (1 and 2) or (3 and (4 or 5))
Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) ALL <1946 to Present>
How to locate references using database specific controlled vocabulary resources together with free-text terms.
In May 2023 the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially declared “an end to COVID-19 as a public emergency” (1). Nevertheless, the pandemic, during its course and afterwards, has had a substantial impact on people’s physical and mental health. This search strategy aims to identify literature that addresses the impact of covid on people’s psychological wellbeing and overall mental health. Constructed for use in Ovid MEDLINE by the Customer Success Team at Wolters Kluwer Health Learning Research and Practice (WKHLRP), equivalent searches have been similarly constructed for APA PsycInfo and Journals@Ovid. Points to note are as follows.
1. Bibliographic Databases and Controlled Vocabularies: Ovid MEDLINE and APA PyscInfo are both bibliographic databases, also referred to as Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. That is to say, they are highly detailed sources of information about information, the latter in the form of mostly scientific journal articles, but also systematic reviews, controlled trials, conference proceedings etc.
Where possible full-text versions of bibliographic references are made available via included link-out options to full-text repositories, e.g. PMC. A characteristic of bibliographic databases is their use of a controlled vocabulary for both indexing and searching. For Ovid MEDLINE the controlled vocabulary is provided by the Medical Subject Headings thesaurus (MeSH) (2) which maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, is an indispensable aid to detailed and focused searching. Coupled with free-term searching, this bibliographic database offers a reliable means of looking for information on a topic quickly, yet comprehensively.
2. Search Strategy Formats: Line-by-Line or Paragraph-Based: There are differing schools of thought as to how to build a search strategy. Some prefer a line-by-line approach. Others are more inclined to enter the search terms one after another in an ongoing stream, separating out search terms and database instructions using combinations of brackets (parentheses) and Boolean Operators (OR, AND, NOT) – the paragraph approach. Each format has merits and disadvantages. The example given here is a hybrid of the two approaches.
1. *covid-19/px or *covid-19 vaccines/px
2. exp psychological phenomena/
3. COVID-19 Vaccines/ or COVID-19/ or COVID-19 Testing/ or COVID-19 Serological Testing/ or SARS-CoV-2/
4. *mental health/ or exp *mental disorders/ or exp *mental processes/ or exp *anxiety disorders/ or exp *"disruptive, impulse control, and conduct disorders"/ or exp *"feeding and eating disorders"/ or exp *mood disorders/ or exp *personality disorders/ or exp *sleep wake disorders/ or exp *substance-related disorders/ or exp *"trauma and stressor related disorders"/ or exp *stress disorders, traumatic/ or hypochondriasis/ or resilience, psychological/ or exp "Feeding and Eating Disorders"/
5. ("Alcohol abus$3" or "alcohol use$2" or Anxiety or Bereavement or Conflict$2 or Compulsion or coping or Cyberchondria or Depression or despair or "disruptive behavior" or Distress or "emotion regulation" or "financial strain" or Hypochondriasis or Isolation or Loneliness or "mental health" or mental or Mood or Obsession or "obsessive-compulsive" or "obsessive compulsive disorder" or overwhelmed or Panic or Posttraumatic or "Post trauma$3" or "prolonged grief" or Psychiatric or "psychiatric disorder" or "psychological well-being" or Psychologic or "psychological impact" or psychoses or psychosis or Ptsd or resilience or resilient or "social isolation" or Stress$3 or "substance use" or "Substance abuse" or Suicide or Suicidal or telepsychiatry or traumatic or violence or worry or "food security" or "community psychology" or fear or "self-harm" or bereavement or "death wish" or "sleep-wake disorder$1" or grief or "poor-sleep" or burnout or trichotillomania or mania$1 or traumatization or coronaphobia or phobia$1 or "impulse control" or "social support" or "moral distress" or "eating disorder$1").ti,kw.
6. (1 and 2) or (3 and (4 or 5))
Primary: Michael Fanning
Secondary: Charlotte Viken
Review Date: 2024-05-08
Expiry Date: 2025-05-08
Ovid Training Team
1. WHO chief declares end to COVID-19 as a global health emergency
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136367
2. US NLM Medical Subject Headings – Home Page
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html
Version: 2024-05-08
Visited:
OvidGo! - Wolters Kluwer - Health Learning, Research and Practice
Ovid Customer Support, Covid and Mental Health – Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Expert Searches Portal, Version: 8th May 2024, Visited: 11th May 2024.
Version: 2024-05-08
Visited:
In May 2023 the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially declared “an end to COVID-19 as a public emergency” (1). Nevertheless, the pandemic, during its course and afterwards, has had a substantial impact on people’s physical and mental health. This search strategy aims to identify literature that addresses the impact of covid on people’s psychological wellbeing and overall mental health. Constructed for use in APA PsycInfo by the Customer Success Team at Wolters Kluwer Health Learning Research and Practice (WKHLRP), equivalent searches have been similarly constructed for Ovid MEDLINE and Journals@Ovid. Points to note are as follows.
1. Bibliographic Databases and Controlled Vocabularies: Ovid MEDLINE and APA PyscInfo are both bibliographic databases, also referred to as Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. That is to say, they are highly detailed sources of information about information, the latter in the form of mostly scientific journal articles, but also systematic reviews, controlled trials, conference proceedings etc.
Where possible full-text versions of bibliographic references are made available via included link-out options to full-text repositories, e.g. PMC. A characteristic of bibliographic databases is their use of a controlled vocabulary for both indexing and searching. For APA PsycInfo the controlled vocabulary is provided by the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms® (2) which maintained by the American Psychological Association (APA), is an indispensable aid to detailed and focused searching. Coupled with free-term searching, this bibliographic database offers a reliable means of looking for information on a topic quickly, yet comprehensively.
2. Search Strategy Formats: Line-by-Line or Paragraph-Based: There are differing schools of thought as to how to build a search strategy. Some prefer a line-by-line approach. Others are more inclined to enter the search terms one after another in an ongoing stream, separating out search terms and database instructions using combinations of brackets (parentheses) and Boolean Operators (OR, AND, NOT) – the paragraph approach. Each format has merits and disadvantages. The example given here is a hybrid of the two approaches.
Primary: Michael Fanning
Secondary: Charlotte Viken
Review Date: 2024-05-08
Expiry Date: 2025-05-08
Ovid Training Team
1. WHO chief declares end to COVID-19 as a global health emergency
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136367
2. APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®
https://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/training/thesaurus
1. COVID-19 Vaccines/ or COVID-19/ or COVID-19 Testing/ or COVID-19 Serological Testing/ or SARS-CoV-2/ or exp coronavirus/
2. *mental health/ or exp *mental disorders/ or exp *anxiety disorders/ or exp *"disruptive, impulse control, and conduct disorders"/ or exp *"feeding and eating disorders"/ or exp *mood disorders/ or exp *personality disorders/ or exp *sleep wake disorders/ or exp *substance-related disorders/ or exp *"trauma and stressor related disorders"/ or exp *stress disorders, traumatic/ or hypochondriasis/ or resilience, psychological/
3. ("Alcohol abus$3" or "alcohol use$2" or Anxiety or Bereavement or Conflict$2 or Compulsion or coping or Cyberchondria or Depression or despair or "disruptive behavior" or Distress or "emotion regulation" or "financial strain" or Hypochondriasis or Isolation or Loneliness or "mental health" or mental or Mood or Obsession or "obsessive-compulsive" or "obsessive compulsive disorder" or overwhelmed or Panic or Posttraumatic or "Post trauma$3" or "prolonged grief" or Psychiatric or "psychiatric disorder" or "psychological well-being" or Psychologic or "psychological impact" or psychoses or psychosis or Ptsd or resilience or resilient or "social isolation" or Stress$3 or "substance use" or "Substance abuse" or Suicide or Suicidal or telepsychiatry or traumatic or violence or worry or "food security" or "community psychology" or fear or "self-harm" or bereavement or "death wish" or "sleep-wake disorder$1" or grief or "poor-sleep" or burnout or trichotillomania or mania$1 or traumatization or coronaphobia or phobia$1 or "impulse control" or "social support" or "moral distress").mp.
4. 1 and (2 or 3)
Database: APA PsycInfo <2002 to Present>
How to locate references using database specific controlled vocabulary resources together with free-text terms
In May 2023 the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially declared “an end to COVID-19 as a public emergency” (1). Nevertheless, the pandemic, during its course and afterwards, has had a substantial impact on people’s physical and mental health. This search strategy aims to identify literature that addresses the impact of covid on people’s psychological wellbeing and overall mental health. Constructed for use in APA PsycInfo by the Customer Success Team at Wolters Kluwer Health Learning Research and Practice (WKHLRP), equivalent searches have been similarly constructed for Ovid MEDLINE and Journals@Ovid. Points to note are as follows.
1. Bibliographic Databases and Controlled Vocabularies: Ovid MEDLINE and APA PyscInfo are both bibliographic databases, also referred to as Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. That is to say, they are highly detailed sources of information about information, the latter in the form of mostly scientific journal articles, but also systematic reviews, controlled trials, conference proceedings etc.
Where possible full-text versions of bibliographic references are made available via included link-out options to full-text repositories, e.g. PMC. A characteristic of bibliographic databases is their use of a controlled vocabulary for both indexing and searching. For APA PsycInfo the controlled vocabulary is provided by the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms® (2) which maintained by the American Psychological Association (APA), is an indispensable aid to detailed and focused searching. Coupled with free-term searching, this bibliographic database offers a reliable means of looking for information on a topic quickly, yet comprehensively.
2. Search Strategy Formats: Line-by-Line or Paragraph-Based: There are differing schools of thought as to how to build a search strategy. Some prefer a line-by-line approach. Others are more inclined to enter the search terms one after another in an ongoing stream, separating out search terms and database instructions using combinations of brackets (parentheses) and Boolean Operators (OR, AND, NOT) – the paragraph approach. Each format has merits and disadvantages. The example given here is a hybrid of the two approaches.
1. COVID-19 Vaccines/ or COVID-19/ or COVID-19 Testing/ or COVID-19 Serological Testing/ or SARS-CoV-2/ or exp coronavirus/
2. *mental health/ or exp *mental disorders/ or exp *anxiety disorders/ or exp *"disruptive, impulse control, and conduct disorders"/ or exp *"feeding and eating disorders"/ or exp *mood disorders/ or exp *personality disorders/ or exp *sleep wake disorders/ or exp *substance-related disorders/ or exp *"trauma and stressor related disorders"/ or exp *stress disorders, traumatic/ or hypochondriasis/ or resilience, psychological/
3. ("Alcohol abus$3" or "alcohol use$2" or Anxiety or Bereavement or Conflict$2 or Compulsion or coping or Cyberchondria or Depression or despair or "disruptive behavior" or Distress or "emotion regulation" or "financial strain" or Hypochondriasis or Isolation or Loneliness or "mental health" or mental or Mood or Obsession or "obsessive-compulsive" or "obsessive compulsive disorder" or overwhelmed or Panic or Posttraumatic or "Post trauma$3" or "prolonged grief" or Psychiatric or "psychiatric disorder" or "psychological well-being" or Psychologic or "psychological impact" or psychoses or psychosis or Ptsd or resilience or resilient or "social isolation" or Stress$3 or "substance use" or "Substance abuse" or Suicide or Suicidal or telepsychiatry or traumatic or violence or worry or "food security" or "community psychology" or fear or "self-harm" or bereavement or "death wish" or "sleep-wake disorder$1" or grief or "poor-sleep" or burnout or trichotillomania or mania$1 or traumatization or coronaphobia or phobia$1 or "impulse control" or "social support" or "moral distress").mp.
4. 1 and (2 or 3)
Primary: Michael Fanning
Secondary: Charlotte Viken
Review Date: 2024-05-08
Expiry Date: 2025-05-08
Ovid Training Team
1. WHO chief declares end to COVID-19 as a global health emergency
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136367
2. APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®
https://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/training/thesaurus
Version: 2024-05-03
Visited:
OvidGo! - Wolters Kluwer - Health Learning, Research and Practice
Ovid Customer Support, Covid and Mental Health – APA PsycInfo, Ovid Expert Searches Portal, Version: 8th May 2024, Visited: 11th May 2024.
Version: 2024-05-03
Visited:
In May 2023 the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially declared “an end to COVID-19 as a public emergency” (1). Nevertheless, the pandemic, during its course and afterwards, has had a substantial impact on people’s physical and mental health. This search strategy aims to identify literature that addresses the impact of covid on people’s psychological wellbeing and overall mental health. Constructed for use in Journals@Ovid by the Customer Success Team at Wolters Kluwer Health Learning Research and Practice (WKHLRP), equivalent searches have been similarly constructed for Ovid MEDLINE and APA PsycInfo. Points to note are as follows.
1. Full-Text Databases and Full Text Searching: In contrast to the bibliographic databases Ovid MEDLINE and APA PyscInfo, Journals@Ovid is a full-text database. It too provides a degree of bibliographic data on the articles contained in it, but its strength is that it contains the full text of articles as well as their accompanying images, graphics and tables.
As a resource, Journals@Ovid is a database that aggregates hundreds of scientific, technical and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. Given this heterogeneity there is no single controlled vocabulary against which the full text content is indexed. Nevertheless, it is possible to search directly in and across the full text of the articles within the database using the word indexed Full Text field (TX).
Usefully, the Full Text field (TX) is also one of the default fields for the Unqualified Search or Multi-Field (MP) search. This is why the .mp search option has been used in all four search lines and paragraphs (see below) of the search strategy being discussed here.
2. Search Strategy Formats: Line-by-Line or Paragraph-Based: There are differing schools of thought as to how to build a search strategy. Some prefer a line-by-line approach. Others are more inclined to enter the search terms one after another in an ongoing stream, separating out search terms and database instructions using combinations of brackets (parentheses) and Boolean Operators (OR, AND, NOT) – the paragraph approach. Each format has merits and disadvantages. The example given here is a hybrid of the two approaches.
Primary: Michael Fanning
Secondary: Charlotte Viken
Review Date: 2024-05-08
Expiry Date: 2025-05-08
Ovid Training Team
1. WHO chief declares end to COVID-19 as a global health emergency
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136367
2. APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®
https://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/training/thesaurus
1. (covid-19 or SARS-CoV-2 or coronavirus).mp and Psycholog.mp.
2. (mental health or mental disorders or mental processes or anxiety disorders or "disruptive, impulse control, and conduct disorders" or "feeding and eating disorders" or mood disorders or personality disorders or sleep wake disorders or substance-related disorders or "trauma and stressor related disorders" or stress disorders, traumatic or hypochondriasis or resilience, psychological or Eating Disorders).mp
3. ("Alcohol abus$3" or "alcohol use$2" or Anxiety or Bereavement or Conflict$2 or Compulsion or coping or Cyberchondria or Depression or despair or "disruptive behavior" or Distress or "emotion regulation" or "financial strain" or Hypochondriasis or Isolation or Loneliness or "mental health" or mental or Mood or Obsession or "obsessive-compulsive" or "obsessive compulsive disorder" or overwhelmed or Panic or Posttraumatic or "Post trauma$3" or "prolonged grief" or Psychiatric or "psychiatric disorder" or "psychological well-being" or Psychologic or "psychological impact" or psychoses or psychosis or Ptsd or resilience or resilient or "social isolation" or Stress$3 or "substance use" or "Substance abuse" or Suicide or Suicidal or telepsychiatry or traumatic or violence or worry or "food security" or "community psychology" or fear or "self-harm" or bereavement or "death wish" or "sleep-wake disorder$1" or grief or "poor-sleep" or burnout or trichotillomania or mania$1 or traumatization or coronaphobia or phobia$1 or "impulse control" or "social support" or "moral distress" or "eating disorder$1").mp
4. (1 AND (2 or 3)
Database: Journals@Ovid Full Text
How to locate references in a full text database where controlled vocabulary resources are not available
In May 2023 the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially declared “an end to COVID-19 as a public emergency” (1). Nevertheless, the pandemic, during its course and afterwards, has had a substantial impact on people’s physical and mental health. This search strategy aims to identify literature that addresses the impact of covid on people’s psychological wellbeing and overall mental health. Constructed for use in Journals@Ovid by the Customer Success Team at Wolters Kluwer Health Learning Research and Practice (WKHLRP), equivalent searches have been similarly constructed for Ovid MEDLINE and APA PsycInfo. Points to note are as follows.
1. Full-Text Databases and Full Text Searching: In contrast to the bibliographic databases Ovid MEDLINE and APA PyscInfo, Journals@Ovid is a full-text database. It too provides a degree of bibliographic data on the articles contained in it, but its strength is that it contains the full text of articles as well as their accompanying images, graphics and tables.
As a resource, Journals@Ovid is a database that aggregates hundreds of scientific, technical and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. Given this heterogeneity there is no single controlled vocabulary against which the full text content is indexed. Nevertheless, it is possible to search directly in and across the full text of the articles within the database using the word indexed Full Text field (TX).
Usefully, the Full Text field (TX) is also one of the default fields for the Unqualified Search or Multi-Field (MP) search. This is why the .mp search option has been used in all four search lines and paragraphs (see below) of the search strategy being discussed here.
2. Search Strategy Formats: Line-by-Line or Paragraph-Based: There are differing schools of thought as to how to build a search strategy. Some prefer a line-by-line approach. Others are more inclined to enter the search terms one after another in an ongoing stream, separating out search terms and database instructions using combinations of brackets (parentheses) and Boolean Operators (OR, AND, NOT) – the paragraph approach. Each format has merits and disadvantages. The example given here is a hybrid of the two approaches.
1. (covid-19 or SARS-CoV-2 or coronavirus).mp and Psycholog.mp.
2. (mental health or mental disorders or mental processes or anxiety disorders or "disruptive, impulse control, and conduct disorders" or "feeding and eating disorders" or mood disorders or personality disorders or sleep wake disorders or substance-related disorders or "trauma and stressor related disorders" or stress disorders, traumatic or hypochondriasis or resilience, psychological or Eating Disorders).mp
3. ("Alcohol abus$3" or "alcohol use$2" or Anxiety or Bereavement or Conflict$2 or Compulsion or coping or Cyberchondria or Depression or despair or "disruptive behavior" or Distress or "emotion regulation" or "financial strain" or Hypochondriasis or Isolation or Loneliness or "mental health" or mental or Mood or Obsession or "obsessive-compulsive" or "obsessive compulsive disorder" or overwhelmed or Panic or Posttraumatic or "Post trauma$3" or "prolonged grief" or Psychiatric or "psychiatric disorder" or "psychological well-being" or Psychologic or "psychological impact" or psychoses or psychosis or Ptsd or resilience or resilient or "social isolation" or Stress$3 or "substance use" or "Substance abuse" or Suicide or Suicidal or telepsychiatry or traumatic or violence or worry or "food security" or "community psychology" or fear or "self-harm" or bereavement or "death wish" or "sleep-wake disorder$1" or grief or "poor-sleep" or burnout or trichotillomania or mania$1 or traumatization or coronaphobia or phobia$1 or "impulse control" or "social support" or "moral distress" or "eating disorder$1").mp
4. (1 AND (2 or 3)
Primary: Michael Fanning
Secondary: Charlotte Viken
Review Date: 2024-05-08
Expiry Date: 2025-05-08
Ovid Training Team
1. WHO chief declares end to COVID-19 as a global health emergency
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136367
2. APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®
https://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/training/thesaurus
Version: 2024-05-03
Visited:
OvidGo! - Wolters Kluwer - Health Learning, Research and Practice
Ovid Customer Support, Covid and Mental Health – Journals@Ovid, Ovid Expert Searches Portal, Version: 8th May 2024, Visited: 11th May 2024.
Version: 2024-05-03
Visited:
This search locates records about tsunamis, tidal waves and earthquakes and types of disaster planning. Earthquakes beneath the sea, or near the shore are often accompanied by destructive waves.
All the MeSH terms (followed by /) in the search are established subjects, but the keyword elements (.mp.) use the question mark truncation symbol (?) to disguise whether the word or phrase may be singular or plural (by including an “S” suffix). The $ or * truncation symbol is also used as unlimited truncation, so aftershock$ matches with aftershock or aftershocking.
Keyword searches use the author’s words from the title and abstract or author keywords (.ti,ab,kw.), as well as selected subjects fields from the database.
Primary: Michael Fanning
Secondary: Charlotte Viken
Review Date: 2024-05-08
Expiry Date: 2025-05-08
Ovid Training Team
OvidGO! / Skills Videos
What are Boolean Operators?
What is an adjacency operator?
What are wildcards?
Subject heading searching
Truncation of keywords
Phrase searching on Ovid
exp Earthquakes/ or (earthquake$ or aftershock$).ti,ab,kw.
Tsunamis/ or tsunami?.mp.
Tidal Waves/ or tidal wave?.mp.
1 or 2 or 3
exp Emergency Medical Services/ or exp disease outbreaks/
disaster planning/ or emergency shelter/ or mass casualty incidents/ or medical countermeasures/ or relief work/ or rescue work/
5 or 6
4 and 7
limit 8 to (yr="2015 -Current" and "humans only (removes records about animals)")
Database: Ovid MEDLINE <1946 to Present>
Focused Searches by Topic
This search locates records about tsunamis, tidal waves and earthquakes and types of disaster planning. Earthquakes beneath the sea, or near the shore are often accompanied by destructive waves.
All the MeSH terms (followed by /) in the search are established subjects, but the keyword elements (.mp.) use the question mark truncation symbol (?) to disguise whether the word or phrase may be singular or plural (by including an “S” suffix). The $ or * truncation symbol is also used as unlimited truncation, so aftershock$ matches with aftershock or aftershocking.
Keyword searches use the author’s words from the title and abstract or author keywords (.ti,ab,kw.), as well as selected subjects fields from the database.
exp Earthquakes/ or (earthquake$ or aftershock$).ti,ab,kw.
Tsunamis/ or tsunami?.mp.
Tidal Waves/ or tidal wave?.mp.
1 or 2 or 3
exp Emergency Medical Services/ or exp disease outbreaks/
disaster planning/ or emergency shelter/ or mass casualty incidents/ or medical countermeasures/ or relief work/ or rescue work/
5 or 6
4 and 7
limit 8 to (yr="2015 -Current" and "humans only (removes records about animals)")
Primary: Michael Fanning
Secondary: Charlotte Viken
Review Date: 2024-05-08
Expiry Date: 2025-05-08
Ovid Training Team
OvidGO! / Skills Videos
What are Boolean Operators?
What is an adjacency operator?
What are wildcards?
Subject heading searching
Truncation of keywords
Phrase searching on Ovid
Version: 2024-05-08
Visited:
OvidGo! - Wolters Kluwer - Health Learning, Research and Practice
Ovid Customer Support, Earthquakes and Tsunamis and Disaster Planning - Ovid MEDLINE, OvidGO! / Focused Searches Portal, Version: 8th May 2024, Visited: 11th May 2024
Version: 2024-05-08
Visited:
This search locates records about bushfires and forest fires. Changes in climate and the introduction of non-native vegetation may lead to increases in weather-related phenomena, including fires.
The MeSH term “Wildfires” was added to the MeSH subject Fires/ in 2018, before that time “Fires” in combination with forests and vegetation, other related terms were used for forest or bushfires. Keyword terms (often with truncation ? or *) are added to build retrieval and add relevance, particularly to local vocabularies.
Primary: Michael Fanning
Secondary: Charlotte Viken
Review Date: 2024-05-08
Expiry Date: 2025-05-08
Ovid Training Team
OvidGO! / Skills Videos
What are Boolean Operators?
What is an adjacency operator?
What are wildcards?
Subject heading searching
Truncation of keywords
Phrase searching on Ovid
Wildfires/
(wildfire? or brushfire? or forestfire? or bushfire? or wild fire? or brush fire? or forest fire? or bush fire? or vegetation fire?).mp. [.mp. includes Wildfires/ from 2018 ]
1 or 2
exp Plants/ or exp Forests/ or Forestry/
Fires/
4 and 5 [before 2018}
3 or 6
limit 7 to yr="2015 -Current"
Database: Ovid MEDLINE <1946 to Present>
Focused Searches by Topic
This search locates records about bushfires and forest fires. Changes in climate and the introduction of non-native vegetation may lead to increases in weather-related phenomena, including fires.
The MeSH term “Wildfires” was added to the MeSH subject Fires/ in 2018, before that time “Fires” in combination with forests and vegetation, other related terms were used for forest or bushfires. Keyword terms (often with truncation ? or *) are added to build retrieval and add relevance, particularly to local vocabularies.
Wildfires/
(wildfire? or brushfire? or forestfire? or bushfire? or wild fire? or brush fire? or forest fire? or bush fire? or vegetation fire?).mp. [.mp. includes Wildfires/ from 2018 ]
1 or 2
exp Plants/ or exp Forests/ or Forestry/
Fires/
4 and 5 [before 2018}
3 or 6
limit 7 to yr="2015 -Current"
Primary: Michael Fanning
Secondary: Charlotte Viken
Review Date: 2024-05-08
Expiry Date: 2025-05-08
Ovid Training Team
OvidGO! / Skills Videos
What are Boolean Operators?
What is an adjacency operator?
What are wildcards?
Subject heading searching
Truncation of keywords
Phrase searching on Ovid
Version: 2024-05-08
Visited:
OvidGo! - Wolters Kluwer - Health Learning, Research and Practice
Ovid Customer Support, Forest Fires and Bush Fires - Ovid MEDLINE, OvidGO! / Focused Searches Portal, Version: 8th May 2024, Visited: 11th May 2024.
Version: 2024-05-08
Visited:
This search locates records about smoke inhalation injury and related topics.
The ADJ or Adjacency operator allows you to locate words or phrases which are close together, and therefore in a relevant context. The adj4 operator finds where a word occurs within 3 words of another. The NOT operator is used to remove unwanted records – but also perhaps removes relevant materials. A record discussing how attending a bushfire is like smoking a packet of cigarettes would be removed by this strategy.
Primary: Michael Fanning
Secondary: Charlotte Viken
Review Date: 2024-05-08
Expiry Date: 2025-05-08
Ovid Training Team
OvidGO! / Skills Videos
What are Boolean Operators?
What is an adjacency operator?
What are wildcards?
Subject heading searching
Truncation of keywords
Phrase searching on Ovid
smoke inhalation injury/ or burns inhalation/ or ((smoke and Inhalation) adj4 injur*).mp. or (smoke and inhal*).mp.
exp Smoking/ or (cigarette? or cigar? or tobacco).mp.
1 not 2
limit 3 to (yr="2015 -Current" and "humans only (removes records about animals)")
Database: Ovid MEDLINE <1946 to Present>
Focused Searches by Topic
This search locates records about smoke inhalation injury and related topics.
The ADJ or Adjacency operator allows you to locate words or phrases which are close together, and therefore in a relevant context. The adj4 operator finds where a word occurs within 3 words of another. The NOT operator is used to remove unwanted records – but also perhaps removes relevant materials. A record discussing how attending a bushfire is like smoking a packet of cigarettes would be removed by this strategy.
smoke inhalation injury/ or burns inhalation/ or ((smoke and Inhalation) adj4 injur*).mp. or (smoke and inhal*).mp.
exp Smoking/ or (cigarette? or cigar? or tobacco).mp.
1 not 2
limit 3 to (yr="2015 -Current" and "humans only (removes records about animals)")
Primary: Michael Fanning
Secondary: Charlotte Viken
Review Date: 2024-05-08
Expiry Date: 2025-05-08
Ovid Training Team
OvidGO! / Skills Videos
What are Boolean Operators?
What is an adjacency operator?
What are wildcards?
Subject heading searching
Truncation of keywords
Phrase searching on Ovid
Version: 2024-05-08
Visited:
OvidGo! - Wolters Kluwer - Health Learning, Research and Practice
Ovid Customer Support, Smoke Inhalation Injury - Ovid MEDLINE, OvidGO! / Focused Searches Portal, Version: 8th May 2024, Visited: 11th May 2024.
Version: 2024-05-08
Visited:
Ovid Customer Support, Database Size and Shape – Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Expert Searches Portal, Version: 8th May 2023, Visited: 11th May 2023.
An Ovid Coaching session has its agenda driven by you, the participating librarian. Topics covered are ones that you choose.
They may be related to Ovid functionality, search modes, search techniques, Ovid Tools & Resources, learning materials etc..
To register for an Ovid Coaching session please fill in the contact form below. In the Your Comments box let us know what you would like to discuss and when.
An Ovid Trainer will get back to you to confirm details.
Focused Searches on OvidGO! consist of a comprehensive selection of database searches that are easily discoverable, accessible and actionable, that you can run directly on the Ovid platform with a single click. The curated and regularly reviewed portfolio of searches has been selected by the Ovid Training Team from various named and accredited sources. They include search filters, search strategies, search blocks and vary in size and format.
You can use all the searches within Focused Searches as standalone resources or in combination with the other knowledge and educational assets in the training and coaching activity areas which together make up the OvidGO! portal. Portrayed using a standardised ABC approach (see next section) developed by the Ovid Training Team, any Focused Search can also be quickly displayed on screen passively for consultation, comparative reference as well as teaching purposes. Each search has a background section which provides more detail about the search, its origin plus any noteworthy features and characteristics.
Full accreditation is given to the creator of the search as well as a live and actionable reference to the original source. Each search carries an OvidGO! citation and can be embedded in non-Ovid documentation by means of a dedicated and permanent link.
Developed by the Ovid Training Team, the ABC approach, which stands for Action, Background and Citation, represents the standard format for every search on Focused Searches. Regardless of its type, size or origin, the ABC formula provides for each search; a memorable point of access for both an overview of the search, accompanying information as well as a set of options for its use and re-use.
For example, if you want to view the search on your screen, simply select Actions/Display. If on the other hand you want to launch the search so that it runs and displays in Ovid, select Actions/Display. Once in Ovid, you could use the executed search in the development of your search strategy, save it in My Workspace or share it with colleagues.
Further options under the Actions tab include:
Selecting the Background tab will provide you with information on the search. These details include:
Selecting the Citation tab will display an OvidGO! citation for the search on Ovid and accompanying materials as displayed in Focused Searches. The current citation format is Vancouver.
The searches on Ovid, presented using our ABC format, can be used in a number of ways. These depend, of course, on what your objective is. They could include searching for literature systematically or getting to know an unfamiliar database or even for teaching database use to others.
For example, if you are building a search strategy which requires locating randomised controlled trials, you might want to select Actions/Launch for the Cochrane RCT Search Filter I and directly include it in your search strategy. Equally you might want to save it as a search block in My Workspace for later review, use or even sharing.
Alternatively, were you to be unfamiliar with, say APA PsycInfo, you could select Actions/Display for the Covid and Mental Health - APA PsycInfo search to see how comfortable you are with that database’s use of terms and phrases for the subject matter.
In terms of teaching scenarios, you could refer to the Search History Analysis Example search, where the Background tab provides information on how to use a search history and its systematic deconstruction to help users better understand how and why such searches are built in the way that they are.
If you need our assistance on any of the Focused Searches use cases mentioned above, simply select Actions/Ovid Coaching for the search that interests you.
Every search on Focused Searches is inspected by at least two members of the Ovid Training Team. Inspection involves two activities. First, ensuring that the search as captured and displayed in OvidGO! Focused Searches is a true and accurate version of the original (which often has had to be extracted and/or rebuilt from its original source, commonly a paper- and/or PDF-based publication). Second, that the search runs on Ovid in the selected database and using the syntax as employed by the original creator of the search.
The Ovid Training Team reviewers do not alter or make changes to the content of the original work. Where ambiguities or questions may arise, these are discussed with the original creator of the search for clarification and author-approved remedial action if necessary. Details of any such request for clarification may also be reported on in the Background information where relevant and appropriate.
In the case of search filter type searches included in Focused Searches, if the original author of the search has validated the search, this information is included in the Background information. The Ovid Training Team does not undertake any search validation independently of the creator of the original search. Again, it's worth iterating here that the objective of OvidGO!’s Focused Searches is to bring useful, instructive and highly regarded searches, already published or issued, closer to a user-level surface for greater exposure and positive consumption.
Currently, the searches on Focused Searches will be reviewed annually for relevancy and usage.
As part of The Focused Searches Project we are also reviewing all the searches in the Expert Searches section of the Ovid Tools & Resources Portal. The subsequent inclusion or exclusion of these expert searches into OvidGO!’s Focused Searches will depend upon the former’s current relevance, topicality and perceived usefulness. The Expert Searches on the Ovid Tools & Resources Portal marked for inclusion will be progressively migrated to Focused Searches on OvidGO! and re-structured and re-issued in accordance with the ABC approach as discussed above. Upon the conclusion of this part of the project, the Expert Searches on the Ovid Tools & Resources Portal will be removed from this site by the end of 2024.
If you have a favourite search currently in the Expert Searches on the Ovid Tools & Resources Portal and would like to have it included in Focused Searches on OvidGO!’s, please let us know.
Yes! We would very much like to hear from you. Ideally, recommended searches should be of benefit to a large number of Ovid users. They can nevertheless vary in terms of what they have been designed to achieve. They could be searches that add a more elegant set of lines to a systematic literature search. Or a set of controlled terms that work well across databases with (very) different controlled vocabularies. Or searches that best demonstrate an approach to database usage.
If you have a search that you would like to recommend, please let us know.
The Focused Searches on OvidGO! editors, Michael Fanning and Charlotte Viken, are contactable via their respective e-mail addresses or alternatively via [email protected] .