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  • Welcome
  • Getting Started
    • Quickstart
  • Protocol Set-Up
    • Defining Your Search Protocol
    • How to Set Search Terms
    • Define Exclusion Reasons
    • Defining Extraction Fields (Advanced Menu)
    • Generate Your Search Protocol
  • Running Searches and Uploading Results
    • Upload Search Results
    • Removing Duplicates
  • Abstract Reviewing
    • Keyword Highlighting and Abstract Sorting
    • Abstract Screening - The First Pass
    • The 1st Pass Abstract Review Screen
  • Full Text Review (Extraction)
    • Uploading and Storing Full Text Articles
    • Appraisal States and Statuses
    • 2nd Pass Extractions Page
    • Filling out Extraction Fields and Forms
  • Report Generation and Downloads
    • Generating Final Reports
    • Report Output Types (With Examples)
  • Advanced Topics
    • Adverse Event Review
    • Search Term Syntax and Errors
    • Manage All Citations Page
    • Fixing Missing Citations
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  1. Advanced Topics

Search Term Syntax and Errors

Because you are able to run the same term on multiple databases, you run the risk of using bad syntax on one database that is still valid on another one. See our guide below to the different databases

Intro

This guide will help you build search queries for all the major databases we offer.

PubMed

Reference Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help/

PubMed Central

User-guide reference link

Cochrane

CochraneQRG Search syntax.pdf

ClinicalTrials.gov

https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/api/gui/ref/syntax#andExpr

Notes:

  • ( ) not permitted on these.

  • AND OR NOT statements permitted

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