Health Science Databases• EBSCOHOST – KU subscription

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health)

MEDLINE

• LIRN – KU subscription ProQuest

• PubMed –US National Library of Medicine (free!)

Log into Keiser Library then select EBSCOHOST

Deselect the automatic selections then choose CINAHL and Medline…Then click “continue”

Insert keywords and limitations: Keywords -attention deficit disorder, iron deficiency anemia, children, and related words in Boolean search. Limit by dates, English, peer-reviewed, and humans.

8 hits are not enough. Change time frame?

Changed to past 10 year gave only 12 hits. Now what?

Additional search strategies…

• Find one article that correctly addresses your subject and examine the key words of that article.

• Try “mind mapping” or creating a Concept Map of key words

• Use other databases • “Snowball” hand search of references in

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