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Nursing Research Guide

A guide for conducting nursing research at KUMC.

Searching Tips

This logic is used in search fields in databases. Each database is different, but most adhere to this logic in the same or similar ways. 

Searching Logic

 

 

 

 

Other Tips

Subject headings are assigned words or phrases used in a database to organize articles and more. 

  • Subject headings can help define your search.
  • If there is not a specific subject heading for your topic, you can continue to use keywords and synonyms.
  • Each database can have different subject headings, but you can find the list by searching the help feature or looking at the examples.

You may also look at the Major Subjects and Minor Subjects (CINAHL) and keywords and MeSH terms (PubMed) in any article of interest to see if there are terms that would be more helpful in your search.

Looking at similar articles may bring other relevant articles to your searching, but you will need to limit the search again by your keywords, dates, source/article type, etc.

CINAHL Subject Headings and Major Subjects

 

PubMed Keywords and MeSH Terms