This is an interesting question. The first thing to come to mind is stop words, but in the Ovid interface the stop words have been discontinued and should you so wish you can  even search for “the”. However they are in use in HDAS. But there is an additional factor coming into play here ( which  I have just discovered) that within the Ovid interface “use” is a command for change database and takes you to the database menu. This of course won’t apply to Cinahl which is not an Ovid database.

 

Janet

 

 

Please can anybody explain why some of the databases in HDAS refuse to carry out a search on the word "use" in title/abstract?  So, for example, in EMBASE I can't use <drug* adj5 use> as a query in title and/or abstract.  CINAHL will, however, do this.

 

Thanks,

Paul

 

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