If your topic of interest is not available as a Palliative Care PubMed Search, use the instructions provided to create your own search. Your specific topic search (e.g. hiccups) can then be combined with the CareSearch palliative care filter to limit the search results to the palliative care context.
Print out the illustrated guide "How to Create Your Own Palliative Care PubMed Search" or follow the instructions below. A short viewer demonstration is also available on the right hand side of this page.
Example
Let's use the example of 'hiccups' in the palliative care context.
Instructions
Step 1: Click on this link: Run the palliative care filter in PubMed now
Step 2: CLEAR the PubMed search box
Step 3: Enter your topic search, ie, hiccups, and select Search
Step 4: Click on the Advanced search link
Step 5: Identify the 'set numbers' for Steps 1 and 3 (eg, #1 AND #2)
Step 6: Combine the 'set numbers' by typing them in the PubMed search box, eg, #1 AND #2
Step 7: Select Search
Results will include references that are about hiccups, restricted to the palliative care context. Substitute your own search terms in Step 3 to create your own PubMed Search.
Having trouble?
Make sure that you type your search terms in the PubMed 'search' box, and not the CareSearch 'search' box. This mistake could happen if you forget to click on 'Run the palliative care filter in PubMed now' step in these instructions.
CareSearch has received two reports that home Internet providers restricted their access to PubMed. If PubMed is not behaving as it should, or if you receive an unusual message such as 'access denied', please contact your supplier to enable access.
Finding out more
Related CareSearch pages
Palliative Care PubMed Searches
Learning to Search
Guide to Searching Effectively in Palliative Care
This page was created on 14 May 2008
Last updated 11 October 2011