Searching for literature on Medline (Ovid)

1. Searching for literature on
Medline (Ovid)

2. Sample search topic:
Fracture strength of zirconia dental implants

3. Concepts and keywords
zirconia OR Zirconium AND implant* AND fracture AND strength
implants

4. Use Advanced Search for search building
Select Advanced Search

5. Suggestion: build your search in stages
Search for keywords: zirconia or zirconium
Search related concepts together.
Use OR operator for synonyms.

6. Search for keywords: fracture and strength and implant*
Results from Search #1
Enter new related search
terms. Use AND
operator.

7. Combine searches
Tick search boxes
Click AND to combine search
#1 and search #2

8. Results
The combined search results will be
displayed under the search page.