On Doctoring MEDLINE searches, with reference librarian comments, March 2000

The question was

I was looking into the effects of Buspar for OCD.
Also, long term effects of Buspar on the patient.

1    exp *Intelligence/    results=1142   
2    exp *Obsessive-compulsive disorder/    results=1639   
3    1 and 2    results= 1   
4    exp *Buspirone/    results= 422   
5    2 and 4    results= 16   
6     5    results= 16   

Reference Librarian comments

Your search is fine. (I just ignored set #1...). If you had gotten hundreds of references, we could go back and select "subheadings" (aspects) of the subjects in sets 2 and 4, and then we'd get less. But you didn't have too many to look at.

PSYCINFO is the "Medline" of the Psych world. It might be fruitful to go there and do a search. The look and feel and vocabulary is quite different.

I decided to try that, just for fun. The URL is:

http://dciswww.dartmouth.edu:50080/?&&&388&s

and then I went to "Advanced" mode and put in this:

(Buspirone or buspar) and obsess$

I got 48 references using that strategy.

Also, just for fun, I "captured" the search into a URL. So, if you'd like to see what comes up in Psycinfo, using my strategy (which was admittedly "quick & dirty"), go here:

http://dciswww.dartmouth.edu:50080/v3?db=388&page=q&qry=(Buspirone%20or%20buspar)%20and%20obsess$&dfn=0&srt=-1