Check Yourself — Lesson 3

Answers to Exercise 3

1. Write out a search strategy for the coral search we just conducted so that the search strategy appears in one search statement.
   
   s coral? and (substitut? or implant? or replac? or graft? or surger?) and (bone? or eye? or cancellous(n)bone?)
   
2. What command would you use for the following:
   
   1. I want to perform a search in EMBASE, File 72 and make sure the search is only conducted in the current year, plus two years back.
      
      b 72 current2
      
      
   2. I want to search for information on other sea animals such as sea squirts or soft coral or sponges and whether they are useful in drug therapy.
      
      s (sea(n)squirt? or soft(w)coral? or sponge?) and drug(w)therap?

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