HLTH 21700: Epidemiological Approaches to Disease Prevention and Control

Why document your search?

• Helps to keep track of what you've done so that you don't repeat things that aren't helpful
• It allow you to easily reuse strategies in different databases
• Helps you describe your search process for the methodology section of your paper
• Allows someone to replicate your search

Things to include:

• Name of Database or Websites used
• Search strategies for each resource including the search terms and limits (i.e. dates, languages, scholarly or peer-reviewed)
• Number of results for each search strategy