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. 2010 Oct;24(5):845-58.
doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2009.11.007. Epub 2010 Jan 27.

Finding information by "design": search strategies for cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia literature

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Finding information by "design": search strategies for cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia literature

Viji Kurup et al. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2010 Oct.
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The ACP-PIER synopsis on perioperative management of congestive heart failure. (Color version of figure is available online.)
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The Medical Subject Heading utility of PubMed. Notice the links feature, which retrieves articles in PubMed in which aprotinin is the main topic. (Color version of figure is available online.)
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The PubMed Clinical Queries page. The search is narrowed down by the type of question; in this case, therapy as well as the scope. (Color version of figure is available online.)
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The Clinical Queries utility of PubMed with the search phrase “heparin induced thrombocytopenia” AND “cardiac surgery” and checking the “therapy” box with “narrow” search criteria yields 12 articles. (Color version of figure is available online.)
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The NGC page showing results for thrombocytopenia with 9 related guidelines. (Color version of figure is available online.)
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