| On Doctoring MEDLINE searches, with reference librarian comments |
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The question was
"How valuable is PSA testing in male patients of 65
years and above?"1 : Prostate-specific antigen/du [Diagnostic Use] {21}
2 : limit 1 to yr=1990-1999 {21}
3 : limit 2 to (evidence based medicine reviews and "aged < 65 {0}
and over >" and english)
4 : limit 2 to ("aged < 65 and over >" and english and {13}
yr=1990-1999)
5 : limit 4 to topic reviews {0}
6 : limit 2 to topic reviews {0}
7 : exp Prostate-specific antigen/du [Diagnostic Use] {21}
8 : limit 4 to local holdings { 10}
Reference Librarian comments
Great job. Congratulations. I played around with this search myself
and took a slightly different approach. I wish I had a little more
time to work with this one. I thought it turned out to be a little
tricky. AGE-GROUPS are sometimes a little difficult to tease out of
MEDLINE.My playing-around went like this, and it is NOT necessarily "better"
than what you did.
1 :
exp *Prostate-specific antigen/du [Diagnostic Use]
102 :
exp *Prostate-specific antigen/
18923 :
exp Mass screening/
206994 :
exp *prostatic neoplasms/di
13585 :
2 and 4
5066 :
limit 5 to ("aged < 65 and over >" or "aged, 80 and over")
2817 :
limit 6 to (human and english language)
2178 :
(sn or ep).fs.
2438989 :
3 or 8
25783710 :
7 and 9
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