PubMed with incorporated animal filter (SYRCLE)
How to construct a comprehensive search strategy
- Formulate a specific research question
In animal models for Alzheimer’s Disease what is the effect of supplementation of omega-3 fatty acids on cognition and neurodegeneration?
- Determine which elements of the question will be your search components (SC)
animals, alzheimer, omega 3 fatty acids
- Make a list of search terms** for every SC containing
- MeSH term e.g. alzheimer disease[MeSH]
- synonyms e.g. alzheimer, alzheimer's, alzheimers, dementia
- Create a search string for each SC using OR between the search terms
Search string for component Alzheimer at SYRCLE website
- Perform searches with separate search strings in PubMed
- Use History (Advanced) to combine search strings with AND. Example