Silly me - just goes to show sometimes we forget the simple things when looking for answers. The answer was to check the Details box in Pubmed which of course showed that Pubmed basic was searching for an additional MeSH term.
Thanks :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Kate Boddy
Sent: 03 September 2008 16:21
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Subject: RE: Searching Query: Ovid Medline V Pubmed
Dear Colleagues
Can anyone help with an Ovid Medline V Pubmed question?
A research colleague of mine has got the following odd results when conducting her search and has asked me to look into it.
She searched the word 'mindfulness' in the following ways:
Ovid Medline (R) searching all fields using .af. = 424 hits Pubmed basic search = 178722 hits Pubmed Advanced searching all fields using the all fields tag = 364 hits
She knows Medline and Pubmed are different but was expecting the 178722 hits on Ovid. 424 was the most she could get and seems very low.
Any answers?
Thanks
Kate
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