This blog has been created to share PubMed search strategies. Search strategies posted here are not perfect. They are posted in the hope that others will benefit from the work already put into their creation and/or will offer suggestions for improvements. Librarians who wish to post comments on this blog or who wish to become authors are invited to e-mail me (Cindy Schmidt). I'm not posting my unmc.edu e-mail address here, but it's easy to find on the web : - ).
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Dose-finding studies or reviews discussing same
The search strategies below are just initial attempts to produce search strategies that focus on dose-finding studies. Proximity searching is very useful for this topic. Neither of the PubMed strategies below comes close to being comprehensive.
EMBASE:
(dose* OR dosage*) NEAR/4 (find* OR rang* OR escalat* OR 'phase i' OR 'phase 1' OR 'phase 2' OR 'phase ii') NEAR/7 (stud* OR trial* OR group*)
PubMed:
("dose finding" OR "dose escalating" OR "dose escalation" OR "dose ranging")
(dose*[ti] OR dosage*[ti]) AND (find*[ti] OR rang*[ti] OR escalat*[ti] OR "phase 1"[ti] OR "phase i"[ti] OR "phase ii"[ti] OR "phase 2"[ti]) AND (stud* OR trial* OR group*)