Summary

Thank you for taking the time to work through these pages.  We hope they have helped you with an introduction to searching systematically in Medline

To summarise, when undertaking  a search:

• • 1. Identify a problem or issue that you are interested in researching

    2. Use PICO to break apart the problem and form it into a research question

    3. Use some of the PICO elements as your initial search concepts (start with 3)

    4. Search Medline, using its built in Subject Headings, for each concept 

    5. Use the AND connector to join these concepts together and give you a final set of results

    6. Carry out a second search using free text terms, and limit to the past year - to pick up any new unindexed papers

• Have a try following these steps for your own topic

Please feel free to contact the library for any help:

• mentalhealthlibrary@sa.gov.au 

• 08 7087 1206  

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