21. Ovid MEDLINE search terms Concept #1 Concept #2 Concept #3 Subject Headings Keywords AND AND OR Hypertension [MeSH]+ Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 [MeSH]+ Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory [MeSH] OR OR OR OR Hypertensi$.mp. (Diabetes mellitus adj5 (type 1 OR insulin?dependent OR juvenile?onset OR sudden?onset)).mp. ((blood pressure OR BP) adj2 (monitor$ OR test$) adj5 (home OR self OR ambulatory)).mp. OR ((high OR elevated) adj2 (blood pressure OR BP)).mp. Iddm.mp. OR OR
22. Some key operators in Ovid Note: These are recommended operators for research lit reviews. There are many, many more operators... Use Ovid‘s Help menu to locate them. Operator Command $ Truncation (finds alternate endings) ? Wildcard (finds alternate spellings) .mp. Mapping Alias (tells Ovid to search for your term in the Title, Abstract, Subject Headings, Table of Contents and Key Phrase Identifier fields) – useful for lit. reviews because it is broad () Parentheses control the order of search operations Adj Adjacency operator (can be followed by a number) tells Ovid terms must appear adjacent to one another AND all terms must appear in results OR any terms will appear in results
25. Running your search(es) Search #2 = Search #3 = Search #4 = Search #5 = #1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4 Search #1 = Concept 1 Search #6 = Search #7 = Search #8 = Search #9 = Concept 2 Search #10 = #6 OR #7 OR #8 OR #9 Search #11 = #5 AND #10 Results
26. Please complete the following search in Ovid Medline AND AND OR Hypertension [MeSH]+ Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 [MeSH]+ Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory [MeSH] OR OR Hypertensi$.mp. (Diabetes mellitus adj5 (type 1 OR insulin?dependent OR juvenile?onset OR sudden?onset)).mp. ((blood pressure OR BP) adj2 (monitor$ OR test$) adj5 (home OR self OR ambulatory)).mp. OR ((high OR elevated) adj2 (blood pressure OR BP)).mp. Iddm.mp.