Search Tips

This guide will show you how to plan, build, and refine your search strategy. Once you have created a search strategy that works, you can use it in several different databases.

This guide will walk you through the three key steps of searching:

• Plan: figure out your search terms and decide where to search
• Build: ways to optimise and combine your terms to get the best results
• Refine: modify your search strategy to increase or decrease the number of results

We will demonstrate the key principles of searching using the following example:

Do sound levels in neonatal intensive care units impact on weight gain of premature babies?