Developing your search strategy is the process of:

1. formulating your question
2. choosing the appropriate database
3. selecting the best Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) or index terms to describe your topic
4. combining the terms or sets
5. limiting your retrieval to appropriate references.

These key features of a search strategy will be covered in this tutorial:

• Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
• Explode and Focus
• Subheadings
• Textwords (Truncation)
• Boolean logic (AND, OR, and NOT)
• Limits