Bias Check: Does your search inquiry target specific outcomes? If your search inquiry only focuses on outcomes, you may be omitting information that includes opposing viewpoints.
Try some searching outside of Pubmed, Embase, or Medline (or your usual go-tos) to uncover additional information:
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Contact your library staff to learn how to craft effient and strategic search strategies using a combination of natural language (keyword) searching and controlled vocabulary (MeSh) searching! Combination searching leverages a variety of techniques to find as many synonyms as possible. Language changes along with current science.
Please keep in mind that the following suggested terms are specific to Pubmed. Terminology across databases is sometimes but usually not a direct translation.
Pubmed terminology for identifying literature on the subject of hematology:
Pubmed terminology for identifying literature on the subject of Medical Oncology
Protip: a hyphen is interpreted by Pubmed as a double parenthesis and therefore conducts a phrase search.
Example: Hematologic-diseases will be treated as a phrase search. The hyphen is universally interpreted across databases as a phrase search! (Not all databases interpret a double parenthesis as a phrase search)
Protip: the asterisk command is used to truncate a term and find all its variations. Example: Oncolog* will find: oncology, oncologic. Example: Diagnos* will find: diagnose, diagnostic, diagnosis, diagnoses, etc.