Evidence Based Medicine Searching Strategies
Literature Search/A Librarian's Search Strategy
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
The question is to find articles about drug therapy for headache using evidence based medicine principles. I decided to look for articles about using sumatriptan for migraines.
| 1 | migraine/dt |
| 2 | sumatriptan/ |
| 3 | 1 and 2 |
| 4 | exp research design/ |
| 5 | exp clinical trials/ |
| 6 | comparative study/ |
| 7 | 4 or 5 or 6 |
| 8 | random:.tw. or mask:.tw. or blind:.tw. |
| 9 | efficacy.tw. or effectiveness.tw. |
| 10 | 7 or 8 or 9 |
| 11 | 10 and 3 |
| 12 | limit 3 to publication type=clinical trial |
| 13 | 11 or 12 |
|
|
|
|
|