Background
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.
Search Stategy
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)")
Reviewers
Primary: Michael Fanning
Secondary: Charlotte Viken
Review Date: 2024-05-08
Expiry Date: 2025-05-08
Original search produced by:
Ovid Training Team
References:
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Citation:
Ovid Customer Support, Smoke Inhalation Injury - Ovid MEDLINE, OvidGO! / Focused Searches Portal, Version: 8th May 2024, Visited: 11th May 2024.