On Doctoring MEDLINE searches, with reference librarian comments

The question was

"What are the available treatments for hip fracture
in the elderly population and what are their respective outcomes? "

1 :  exp *Hip fractures/dt,su,th [Drug Therapy, Surgery, Therapy]         {1039}
2 :  limit 1 to (human and english language and female and         {402}
("aged < 65 and over >" or "aged, 80 and over"))
3 :  exp treatment outcome/         {65031}
4 :  2 and 3         {81}
5 :  from 4 keep         {19}
3,7,15,18,21,24-25,30-31,33,35,47,51,64,69-70,75,77,79

Reference Librarian comments

Your MEDLINE strategy is right on. Very good. I suppose you could
have also selected the "rehabilitation" and maybe "nursing" and maybe
even "diet therapy" subheadings (...in set #1...), but your strategy
got the main/good stuff, I'm sure. This would be a search I'd
probably use to try out the "EBM Reviews" limitation.

Yes, I just tried that and I like it.

I did:

1 :  exp *hip fractures/dt,su,th,rh,su,th         {1166}
2 :  limit 3 to (ebm reviews and human and english language)          {16}

I'm not suggesting that this is "better" than your strategy, just
different. And the "EBM" business is so new that it's fun to give it
a shot. I'll includes the references (...so you can get the
flavor...) at the end of this message...