Updated PubMed Search Filter Strategies

PubMed has recently updated a number of their subject filter strategies. The following are the strategies updated.

• Cancer
• Complementary Medicine
• Dietary Supplements
• Systematic Reviews
• Toxicology
• Veterinary Science  

Subject-based search filters assist searching by offering validated search strategies.

The Cancer search strategy, to take an example, uses terms from the neoplasms (and related) branches of MeSH cancer-related text words , and MEDLINE journal titles. It was created jointly by NLM and the National Cancer Institute to facilitate searching for subjects in all areas of cancer, ranging from  clinical care to basic research. This filter can also be used in a search as cancer [sb].

Example: survivors AND cancer [sb]

Another subject filter strategy is for Systematic Reviews. This strategy is intended to retrieve citations identified as systematic reviews, meta-analyses, reviews of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine. consensus development conferences, guidelines and citations to articles from journals specializing in review studies of value to clinicians. This filter can be used in a search as systematic [sb].

Example: excercise hypertension AND systematic [sb]

You can find out more about PubMed subject filter search strategies at 

http://www,nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_subsets.html

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World Cancer Day 2015

Today is World Cancer Day, a day to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage it's prevention, detection and treatment.

RCSI Library provides access to a number of useful resources on cancer. Of particular interest may be the cancer subset on PubMed; using this filter your results will be automatically limited to cancer-related citations on PubMed. To use the the filter type 'cancer [sb]' into the search box. An example would be 'Ireland AND cancer [sb]' .

You can access PubMed through the 'Find Articles:Databases' section of the library website at http://www.rcsi.ie/library

                             

                             Other Useful Resources:

• http://www.cancer.gov - US National Cancer Institute
• http://www.cancer.ie    -  The Irish Cancer Society
• http://www.who.int/cancer/en - WHO's Cancer Control Programme

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