| On Doctoring MEDLINE searches, with reference librarian comments |
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The question was
"heart murmurs in infants and which have to be
surgically repared vs. not"1 : exp *Heart murmurs/ {590}
2 : limit 1 to (newborn infant < birth to 1 month > or infant < {79}
1 to 23 months >)
3 : limit 2 to (human and english language) {57}
4 : Heart diseases/cn,su [Congenital, Surgery] {2216}
5 : 3 and 4 {0}
6 : 2 and 4 {0}
7 : Infant, newborn, diseases/cn,su [Congenital, Surgery] {1252}
8 : 3 and 7 {0}
9 : from 3 keep 1,4,6,19,42,47 {6}
10 : from 3 keep 1,4-5,11,14,19,37,47,55 {9}
11 : from 10 keep 1-9
Reference Librarian comments
I remember working with you on this interesting question. (I think I
was involved up to about set #3...).I'd advise checking the "Explode" check-box almost always. If you
had done that with sets #4 and also #7, you would have found more and
better, probably. But it's clear that you're getting the hang of it.
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