All credited authors are identified with their articles. Author names are stored with last name, space, and initials, as in "Donaldson MC" or "Meyerovitz MF". This field matches whole words only, so "Donald" would not match either name. Also note that "M" will not match either name, as initials are taken together as one word. The entry "donaldson" will match, as the search engine is not case-sensitive.
This is typically in the form "Title: Subtitle", e.g "Revascularization for Femoropopliteal Disease: A Decision and Cost-effectiveness Analysis". Again, only whole words produce matches, so "femor" or "vascular" will not match this example.
Do not use apostrophes. For example, to find articles on Alzheimer's disease, search for "Alzheimer". This will find both "Cerebral infarction in Alzheimer 's disease is associated with severe amyloid angiopathy and hypertension ." and "Clinical validity of the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale in detecting dementia of the Alzheimer type".
This field lists all MeSH and AMA subject headings for every article. Note that these are full MedLine headings and only whole word matches are used, so "cutaneous" would not match the previous example, though "percutaneous" would (MeSH heading: "Angioplasty, Transluminal, Percutaneous Coronary"). "Cancer" is not a MedLine heading; it won't match much, though "melanoma" might.
This search will only return articles whose abstracts are available on this site (or, in the case of Medical News & Perspectives or Women's Health, full-text articles). The search engine will stop after 100 hits--you may need to further specify your search if you get this many.
(1) Preventable Hospitalizations and Access to Health Care
(2) Evaluation of the Complication Rate as a Measure of Quality of Care in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
(3) Epidemiology of Avoidable Delay in the Care of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction in Italy
Use "and" to restrict a search. A title search for "care and access" would return only articles whose titles contained both words (1).
Use "or" to widen a search. A title search for "care or access" would return articles whose titles contained either word (1), (2), and (3).
Use parentheses "(" and ")" to better express a search. For example, "care and (access or delay)" would match articles which had "care" and "access" OR "care" and "delay" (1) and (3).
Nested parentheses are not allowed. "care and ( (access or denial) or delay)"--bad request. There must be a boolean operator between parenthetical phrases "(care and access) or (denial and delay)".
