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search PubMed using the worlds biggest PubMed search box!!!

Search PubMed using the worlds biggest PubMed search box.

St B's is dedicated to finding palliative care. Use our search box to try different components of the general palliative care search term to find a combination that suits your interests. You can also do this in PubMed's own search page but St B's thinks that, sometimes, size does matter; and having a bigger box AND the information visible helps those of us with short term memory problems.

You can, of course, come back here at any time to search PubMed for anything you like... not just palliative care. Have a look at PubMed's online tutorials.

If you want to, you can now save the search box to your own machine so that you can use it without coming back to St B's.

joining search terms - "boolean" searching

PubMed will tell you more about "boolean" searching here - don't forget to check out the bit about parentheses (brackets). St B's does NOT believe boolean searching is intuitive; it needs thought and practice and operators (whatever they are) must be in UPPER CASE.

boolean "operators"

OR will find items that have any of the terms specified - more citations returned.

AND will find items that contain all of the terms specified - fewer citations returned.

NOT excludes items containing the terms specified - fewer citations returned.

Below are the individual items used in the general palliative care search term. St B's started to write small notes about each term, however, it became too complex to deal with in a few lines. If we decide to write a PhD about it, or inspiration strikes we will let you know. In the meantime have a play with the "world's biggest PubMed search box".

palliat*	advance directives	bereavement
terminal care	advance care planning	grief
terminally ill	withholding treatment	attitude to death
hospice*	life support care	death[mh:noexp]
"end of life"

the world's biggest "PubMed" search box

The PubMed search box is only 45 characters long which is adequate for much of what we do, but it means that the complete text of long search terms cannot be seen. This search box allows you to see up to 400 characters at one time.

The "general palliative care search term" used here is 229 characters long (including spaces). If you exceed 400 characters (what are you doing?) the text box will scroll to accommodate even the most extravagant searcher.

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PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Created 27 July 2007

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