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Conducting a basic search:

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Example: cardiovascular disease AND elderly AND frailty AND exercise

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Using Filters to narrow the results

You can narrow your search results by article types, text availability, publication dates, species, languages, sex, subjects, journal categories, ages and search fields.

To activate a sidebar filter, click on Additional Filters. A popup window will appear. Choose which filters to the activate.

Note: Subsequent searches will be filtered until the selected filters are cleared.

PubMed Cite tool 

Use the Advanced Search Builder to search for terms in a specific search field.

• To search by author, select Author from the All Fields menu, and then enter an author’s name, the name will automatically display in the search box. The author search box includes an autocomplete feature.
• To search by journal, select Journal from the All Fields menu, enter a journal name; the journal search box also includes an autocomplete feature.
• To search for other fields in a citation, use the pull-down menus to select a field before entering a term in the search builder box.
• Note that the default Boolean operator is AND; if desired, choose OR or NOT from the pull-down menu.