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The PubMed search box is only 45 characters long (including spaces) 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 at St B's 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. Please use this box to explore the search environment in PubMed.
At the bottom of the page is information about searching PubMed for material relevant to palliative care.
PLEASE NOTE: If you use this page to search PubMed you cannot save the search term with the page. The text of the search term must be saved separately.
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.
| 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 is the general palliative care search term. "palliat*" is a wild card search term which captures all references to palliative, palliation, palliate etc. "end of life" is a text phrase and needs to be kept inside the double quotes. "death[mh:noexp]" is a story all of its own.
palliat* OR terminal care OR terminally ill OR hospice* OR "end of life" OR advance directives OR advance care planning OR withholding treatment OR bereavement OR grief OR attitude to death OR life support care OR death[mh:noexp]