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Here is how to use PubMed:
1) Go to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
2) Select PubMed from the pull-down menu or click on the
word in the dark blue bar near the top.
3) Enter search terms in the box. You can use your own words
or, better yet, the terms from the defined thesaurus
("MeSH= Medical Subject Headings) to which all the
articles have been indexed. The terms can be connected by
Boolean operators (all caps)AND, NOT, and OR. If there
are too many results, you may want to use subheadings
with theMeSH terms. I'll give you some examples below.
4) When you get the list of articles, click on one that
interests you. You will get the bibliographic refs
andan abstract if one is available. Depending on the
policy of the journal, you may also be able to click on
a link to the full-text version. There will also be a
clickable "Related Articles" button which will use the
MeSH headings in that article to look for articles
which were also indexed with those terms and thus
possibly of interest. You can also look at the MeSH
terms that were used
for that article by selecting MEDLINE from the pull-down
that says "Citation"(the default format).
Here are some MeSH terms you might want to use [example for
liver cancer]. If you use them without a subheading, you
should put [mh] beside them to indicate you are using a MeSH
term rather than just a textword [tw] or a title word [ti].
hepatoma liver neoplasms hepatitis B hepatitis B, chronic
multimodal treatment survival rate survival analysis disease
free survival remission induction treatment outcome
hepatectomy liver transplantation therapeutic embolization
immunotherapy alternative medicine postoperative
complications gene therapy antineoplastic agents
antineoplastic agents, combined antiviral agents
The subheadings you might want to use are: /th = therapy /dt
= drug therapy /mo = mortality /su = surgery /rt =
radiotherapy /ae = adverse effects (used with techniques or
drugs) /tu = therapeutic use (used with drugs)
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