Review

Use search field abbreviations when doing these exercises. Remember, you can use the History feature to combine searches. You may want to use the Print button on your browser to print out these exercises before switching to PubMed. To conduct these exercises within PubMed, please open a second browser window by clicking here.

When you have finished these exercises, switch back to this window and compare your results with the suggested answers.

Suggested answers are included. Your approach, as well as the number of results retrieved, may vary. New citations are added regularly to PubMed.

1. Do a Text Word [tw] search for cell phones. Suggested Answer

2. Find references to articles about Winston Churchill. (Hint: Use [ps].) Suggested Answer

3. Do a MeSH heading search for video display terminals and carpal tunnel syndrome. Suggested Answer

4. Find citations with the word acupuncture in the title [ti] with a publication date of 2000. (Hint: Use [dp].) Suggested Answer

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