Janet Martin wrote:
<<...Do you think MEDLINE indexing has improved such that other searching
filters are now more likely to produce more sensitive or specific
searches?...>>
Combining MeSH tree, headings/subheadings combinations, and _then_ using
free-text search has so far almost always provided me with a very precise
set of articles. Neither combination of heading/subheadings nor free-text
search alone could be better, IMHO.
Lowe and Barnett wrote an excellent intro to MeSH vocabulary in JAMA, April
13, 1994 (Vol 271; No. 14)
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