Searching Tips

By default, querying on more than one word will return results where any of the words are in the text, ie. if you search on lung cancer you will get all records where either lung or cancer exist in the text.

To make sure a word is included in the text, use + before the word, ie. to return results where both the words lung and cancer are included in the text, search on: +lung +cancer

To search on a phrase exactly as it is, use double quotation marks, ie. "lung cancer"

To exclude a word,use - before the word, ie. to find text where the word lung is included but not cancer, search on: +lung -cancer

To search on variations of words, you can use the wildcard character *. Eg: searching on smok* would return text where the words smoke, smoking, smoker, smokes or smokers exist. Note, however, if you searched on smoke*, you would have returned text with words such as smokes and smoking, but not the word smoke on its own.