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Allopathic Medicine: NSU MD Library Guide: Search PubMed: Advanced

An instructional pathfinder to researching for Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine

NLM: Advanced Search Tutorial

Advance Search Builder

The Advanced link provides two options to refine a search:

  1. Advanced Search Builder: to create a search using AND, OR, or NOT. Apply a specific field to your term by using the drop down menu.
  2. History: tracks and numbers search statements. Click on the numbered search statements into a new search with AND, OR, or NOT. The search may also be run, deleted, examined in Details or Saved in My NCBI.

Search Results Summary Display

MESH Searching

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary.

  • It is used for indexing articles for MEDLINE/PubMed.
  • MeSH terminology provides a consistent way to retrieve information that may use different terminology for the same concepts.
  • It pulls together all articles on a concept including synonyms (myocardial infarction/heart attack) and allows for spelling variations (estrogen/oestrogen).

Access MeSH in PubMed from the drop-down menu OR click on MeSH Database from the PubMed homepage.

Enter a topic into the Search bar and click the Search button. The MeSH database offers options to clarify and focus searches.

Click the selected MeSH term to view the definition, often with the year introduced, the entry terms with the subheadings, related and linked terms, also MeSH hierarchy of linked terms.

NLM MeSH Terms: A video Tutorial