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CINAHL: Subject Heading Searching
Nursing and MidwiferyLa Trobe University LibraryCollege of Science, Health & Engineering September 2015
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Select CINAHL from the Database listing (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health)
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Login with your username and password
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Our topic is “Pressure sores among nursing home residents.”
Identify which Search Terms to use:
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Concept 1 Concept 2
Pressure sores Nursing homes
To search by Subject Heading:• Enter the term – pressure sores
• Select Suggest Subject Terms• Search
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Select ‘Suggest Subject Terms’
• Select "Pressure Ulcer”• Select “Explode” to include narrower terms.• What is Scope? Always check the “Scope Note” if available to confirm you are
using the correct subject term!• Search Database
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Select the appropriate term then ‘Search”
Search results will list under the search history:• Click on the article title to see the full record and abstract
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Citation – note journal title: Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development
Enter the second concept:• Nursing homes, select Suggest Subject Terms and Search
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There are a number of options that may be suitable:• Select “nursing homes”, “nursing home patients” or more!
•Check the Scope Note if unsure.
•Select “Search Database
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You can search multiple search terms at once.
Search results for nursing homes search terms:
• Note: all nursing homes terms have been searched using OR
• Now: Select both searches and “Search with AND"
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Search results which include both pressure sores (search 1) and nursing homes terms (search 2)
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Note search results reduced to 557 when included both concepts.
• Search 1:
Pressure ulcer = 9,158 results
• Search 2:
Nursing home patients OR nursing homes = 20,924
• Search 3:
added two searches together = 557
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Refine the search:Show More provides more limiting options:
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Show More limits the results:
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Limits are available. In this example, we limited our search topeer reviewed, English language and date, which has decreased results.
Save your search history (Create an account)
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Select which articles are suitable, then find the full text!
• Click on the Full Text Finder
• If not found, search the journal title from Journals (Library home) and navigate to the article by date, volume, issue …
• If still not found, order from Document Delivery (see Quick Links on Library home)
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Keyword Searching
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• You can search CINAHL with keywords instead of Subject Terms
• Subject Terms provide more precision in the search, but sometimes there is no term, so you will need to use keywords or
• Recent records in CINAHL may not have had full indexing, so subject heading will not retrieve these
• Keyword searching is enhanced by using:
• Truncation * use this to extend a word e.g. child* will retrieve children, childless, childhood etc.
• Quotes will search for two or more words as a phrase e.g. “acquired brain injury”, “quality of life” or “type 2 diabetes”
Create an account in CINAHL:
• Create an account in CINAHL. Select Sign In from the top blue bar
• You can save searches
• Sort search results and store articles
• Export references to EndNote (http://latrobe.libguides.com/endnote)
• Set up email alerts to journal publications
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Help!
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