MEDLINE Searching Strategies

Search Results

You should see a search result screen like the one below. Ovid returned over 100,000 "hits" (citations) when we exploded HIV Infections. As we build the search strategy we will be reducing the final result set to a reasonable number of citations to review.

NOTE: Keep in mind that MEDLINE is updated regularly. Therefore, the number of hits that you retrieve may vary from the search examples in this tutorial.