MEDLINE search tips: Limits

Note that many child age groups are available.

Limit to appropriate terms for therapy, diagnosis, prognosis, etiology. Note that is is a search in PubMed under Clinical Queries on main screen.

Popular publication types include Review, Randomized Controlled Trial, Clinical Trial.

Limit to Systematic Reviews here.

119 core titles. Note that by limiting to core journals, many of the 4000+ journals indexed in MEDLINE will be excluded. Not a good limit for a comprehensive search.

This limit does not limit to all of the articles available in print or fulltext via the library. Use with caution.