Health Literacy Search

NLM® updated the Health Literacy Special Query, one of the Special Queries, to retrieve more health literacy relevant records in PubMed. The pre-formulated search now includes retrieval of citations to articles about self-care perception and articles about comprehension of food labels.
The Reference and Web Services Section of the National Library of Medicine created and maintains this health literacy search strategy.
The MEDLINE/PubMed health literacy search retrieves citations to English language journal literature. See details of the search strategy below.

Search Details

"health literacy" OR
“health literate” OR
“medical literacy” OR
(health [ti] AND
literacy [ti]) OR
(functional [tw] AND
health [tw] AND
literacy [tw]) OR
((low-literate [ti] OR
low-literacy[ti] OR
literacy[ti] OR
illiteracy[ti] OR
literate[ti] OR
illiterate[ti] OR
reading [mh] OR
comprehension [mh]) AND
(health promotion [major] OR
health education [major] OR
patient education [major] OR
communication barriers [major] OR
communication [major:noexp] OR
health knowledge, attitudes, practice [major] OR
attitude to health[major])) OR
(comprehension [major] AND
educational status [major])OR
(family [ti] AND
literacy [ti])OR
(("drug labeling"
OR Prescriptions, drug [mh])
AND "comprehension"))OR numeracy
OR ((cancer[ti] OR diabetes[ti] OR genetic[ti]) AND (literacy[ti] OR comprehension[ti]))
OR “adult literacy” OR
“limited literacy” OR
“patient literacy” OR
“patient understanding”[ti] OR
(self care [major] AND perception[mh]) OR
(comprehension AND food labeling[mh])
AND English [la]

More information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/queries/health_literacy.html

evaluation, rating-- keywords

This evaluation title word search was designed for use with an agency/institution/department search to find records centered on evaluation of agencies/etc.

(quality[ti] OR evaluat*[ti] OR assess*[ti] OR efficac*[ti] OR effectiv*[ti] OR ineffectiv*[ti] OR success*[ti] OR unsucess*[ti] OR fail*[ti] OR competen*[ti] OR incompeten*[ti] OR accredit*[ti] OR unaccredit*[ti] OR certific*[ti] OR Uncertif*[ti] OR licensed[ti] OR unlicensed[ti] OR un-licensed[ti] OR quality[ti] OR accura*[ti] OR inaccura*[ti] OR outstanding[ti] OR excel*[ti] OR grade[ti] OR grading[ti] OR grades[ti] OR graded[ti] OR rate[ti] OR rates[ti] OR rating[ti] OR rated[ti] OR scor*[ti] OR deficien*[ti] OR adequat*[ti] OR inadequat*[ti] OR poor[ti] OR capacity[ti] OR score[ti] OR scored[ti] OR scoring[ti] OR scores[ti] OR improv*[ti] OR unimprov*[ti] OR performance*[ti] OR reinvigorat*[ti] OR invigorat*[ti] OR supervis*[ti] OR unsupervis*[ti] OR oversight[ti] OR overseeing[ti] OR reorganiz*[ti] OR best[ti] OR better[ti] OR good[ti] OR worse[ti] OR worst[ti] OR disgust*[ti] OR dis-satisf*[ti] OR dissatisf*[ti] OR satisf*[ti] OR error[ti] OR errors[ti] OR mistake*[ti])

kidney diseases, kidney function -- keyword

This "kidney condition" keyword search includes terms that are present in articles about normal kidneys. It is meant to represent the kidney concept in a multi-concept search. In such multi-concept searches, the other search concepts often make the ANDing of condition/disease/abnormality/failure/insufficiency/dysfunction/replacement terms to the normal kidney terms unnecessary and/or undesirable.

(kidney OR renal OR glomerulo* OR anuri* OR "diabetes insipidus" OR wolfram*[tiab] OR nephropath* OR fanconi*[tiab] OR hepatorenal OR hydronephro* OR hyperoxaluri* OR renovascular OR nephroma* OR denys-drash OR "denys drash" OR wagr OR "papillary necrosis" OR nephritis OR nephritic OR nephritides OR anti-glomerular OR antiglomerular OR glomerulonephriti* OR glomeruloscleros* OR pyelonephriti* OR pyeliti* OR pyelocystiti* OR pyelonephriti* OR nephrocalcino* OR nephrolith* OR nephrosclero* OR nephrosis OR nephroses OR nephrotic OR perinephriti* OR "tubular necrosis" OR frasier*[tiab] OR bartter*[tiab] OR fanconi*[tiab] OR gitelman*[tiab] OR glycosuri* OR liddle*[tiab] OR oculocerebrorenal OR pseudohypoaldosteron* OR aminoaciduri* OR cystinuri* OR uremia OR uremias OR uremic OR ureami* OR azotemi* OR azotaemi* OR hemolytic-uremic OR zellweger*[tiab] OR crcl OR clcr OR "creatinine clearance" OR glomerular OR GFR OR albuminuri* OR microalbuminuri* OR macroalbuminuri* OR proteinuri* OR dialy* OR hemodialy* OR haemodialy* OR hemofilt* OR haemofilt* OR ESRD OR CKD  )

Consider including terms for kidney graft rejection or failure

small intestinal bacterial overgrowth -- keywords

(("small intestine" OR "small intestines" OR "small intestinal" OR "small bowel" OR "small bowels" OR jejun* OR ilium OR iliums OR ilial OR duodenum OR duodenums OR duodenal OR enteric) AND (((bacteria OR bacterias OR bacterium OR microbial OR microbiota OR microflora) AND (overgrowth)) OR dysbio*)) OR SIBO)

statins -- keyword and MeSH

("Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors"[Mesh] OR "Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors "[Pharmacological Action] OR "atorvastatin "[Substance Name] OR "fluvastatin "[Substance Name] OR "Lovastatin"[Mesh] OR "pitavastatin "[Substance Name] OR "Pravastatin"[Mesh] OR "rosuvastatin "[Substance Name] OR "Simvastatin"[Mesh]OR statin OR statins OR "Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors" OR "Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitor" OR "HMG coa reductase inhibitor" OR "HMG coa reductase inhibitors" OR "HMG-coa reductase inhibitor" OR "HMG-coa reductase inhibitors" OR ATORVASTATIN* OR CI-981 OR CI981 OR "CI 981" OR FLUVASTATIN* OR XU-62-320 OR XU62320 OR "XU 62 320" OR LOVASTATIN* OR Lovasztatin* OR L154803 OR MB-530B OR MB530B OR "MB 530B" OR Mevinacor OR Mevinic OR Mevinolin OR Mevlor OR Monacolin* OR MK-803 OR MK803 OR "MK 803" OR MSD803 OR PITAVASTATIN* OR Itavastatin* OR Nisvastatin* OR NK-104 OR NK104 OR "NK 104" OR NKS104 OR P-872441 OR P872441 OR "P 872441" OR PRAVASTATIN* OR CS-514 OR CS514 OR "CS 514" OR Eptastatin* OR "3-beta-Hydroxycompactin" OR Pravastatiininatrium* OR Pravasztatin* OR SQ-31000 OR SQ31000 OR "SQ 31000" OR ROSUVASTATIN* OR S-4522 OR ZD4522 OR S4522 OR ZD-4522 OR "S 4522" OR SIMVASTATIN* OR MK-733 OR L644128OOOU OR MK733 OR "MK 733" OR Simvastatiini OR Sinvinolin* OR Synvinolin* OR Szimvasztatin* OR Velastatin*)

This strategy includes investigational names and English and foreign generic names that were listed in Martindale's and PoisonDex Managements as of 01/06/11. Brand names have not been included and will need to be added for some searches.

The following hyphenated and multi-word drug names were removed from the search strategy as they were not found in PubMed and caused retrieval of irrelevant results:
L-154803, MSD-803, NKS-104, L-644128-OOOU, "L 154803", "6-alpha methylcompactin", "MSD 803", "NKS 104", "ZD 4522", "L 644128 OOOU"

in vitro - keyword and MeSH

("in vitro" OR culture OR cultures OR cultured OR "ex vivo" OR explant* OR "cells, cultured"[mesh] OR "In Vitro "[Publication Type])

Prasugrel keyword

(Prasugrel* OR LY-640315 OR LY640315 OR “LY 640315” OR CS745 OR Effient)

The following hyphenated and mutli-word names for copidogrel were removed because they were not found in PubMed and were causing retrieval of irrelevant results: CS-745 “CS 745”