If it doesn't matter WHAT kind of cancer, this filter should find it. But-- you need to make certain your other concepts can narrow appropriately as this is a very broad search.
The search retrieves well over 5.3 million results.
exp Neoplasms/ or (Adenosarcoma* or blastoma* or cancer or cancers or carcinoma* or Carcinosarcoma* or glioma* or leukemia* or Liposarcoma or Lymphangiom* or lymphoma* or melanoma* or metastatic or myeloma* or neoplasm* or oncolog* or osteosarcoma* or sarcoma* or tumor* or tumour*).ti,ab,kf,kw.
The following search utilizes these broad concepts: Cancer + cultural competency + limit to US studies
Search cancer/cultural competency/US studies in Ovid Medline (Finds ~1900 items)
(exp Neoplasms/ or (Adenosarcoma* or blastoma* or cancer or cancers or carcinoma* or Carcinosarcoma* or glioma* or leukemia* or Liposarcoma or Lymphangiom* or lymphoma* or melanoma* or metastatic or myeloma* or neoplasm* or oncolog* or osteosarcoma* or sarcoma* or tumor* or tumour*).ti,ab,kf,kw.) and ("Cultural Competency"/ or "Culturally Competent Care"/ or (((cultural or culturally) adj3 (appropriate or appropriateness or competency or competent or inappropriate or incompetent or incompetency or insensitive or insensitivity or responsive or responsiveness or safe or sensitive or sensitivity)) or (culture adj2 appropriate)).ti,ab,kf,kw.) not ((exp africa/ or exp asia/ or exp australia/ or exp canada/ or exp central america/ or exp europe/ or exp south america/) not (north america/ or exp united states/))
When conducting a trial, how do you know which outcomes are most appropriate for measurement? One way is to check for a core outcome set on your topic.
"A core outcome set (COS) is an agreed standardised set of outcomes that should be measured and reported, as a minimum, in all clinical trials in specific areas of health or health care." (COMET Initiative)
Below are two ways to search for core outcomes.
The first way searches only the title field and will retrieve fewer results but they tend to be highly pertinent.
((core adj (outcome or outcomes)) or (outcome adj (set or sets))).ti.
The 2nd way searches the title field as well as the abstract and keyword fields. Many of the articles won't be relevant; you will find articles that recommend the use of core outcomes but you will also find exploratory studies to determine next steps to develop core outcome sets for a specific area. This may be useful to you if you are interested in getting involved in the process or if you are writing a grant for a trial and you want to be certain you are focusing on appropriate outcomes even if there is not an outcome set.
(((core adj (outcome or outcomes)) or (outcome adj (set or sets))).ti,ab,kf,kw.
expanded core outcome sets + pregnancy/maternal health (Requires Pitt login)
1 | ((core adj2 (outcome or outcomes)) or (outcome adj2 (set or sets))).ti | Title search for core outcome sets. |
2 | Maternal Health/ | |
3 | exp Pregnancy Complications/ or exp Pregnancy/ | |
4 | (maternal or pregnancy).ti,ab,kf,kw. | |
5 | 2 or 3 or 4 | Creates a concept cluster for pregnancy/maternal health. Combines the terms on lines 2, 3, 4. |
6 | 1 and 5 | Returns ONLY those items core outcome and pregnancy topics. |
7 | ((core adj2 (outcome or outcomes)) or (outcome adj2 (set or sets))).ti,ab,kf,kw. | Expanded search for core outcomes. This more than doubles the results on line 1, but increases the number of non-relevant items |
8 | 5 and 7 | Combines the expanded core outcomes search with the pregnancy results. More than doubles the results on line 6 |
Ultra-broad search for any kind of genetic-linked condition and genetic screening. (Pitt login required)
Note: There are some specific genetic conditions that have not been added. A complete list of MeSH terms can be found in the PubMed MeSH database. (No login required)
This does not look for specific genetic diseases but is designed to be very broad. The last part of the statement, "and English.la." limits to publications in English.
Search in Ovid Medline using the genetic counseling filter (Pitt login required; includes both this and the muscular dystrophy search)
(((genetic carrier screening/ or Genetic Determinism/ or "Genetic Diseases, Inborn"/ or Genetics, Medical/ or "Genetic Predisposition to Disease"/ or genetic research/ or genetic services/ or genetic techniques/ or genetic testing/ or genetic therapy/ or genetics/ or human genetics/ or noninvasive prenatal testing/ or pharmacogenomic testing/ or (genetic or genetics or hereditary or inborn or inherited or intrafamilial or predisposition).ti,ab,kf,kw. or ge.fs.) and (Counseling/ or Counselors/ or directive counseling/ or counsel*.ti,ab,kf,kw.)) or genetic counseling/) and English.la.
Search in Ovid Medline using the genetic counseling filter (Pitt account required; includes both this and the generic search filter)
(intimate partner violence/ or spouse abuse/ or (((abuse or abused or abusive or aggression or aggressive or battered or fighting or violence or violent) adj3 (boyfriend or boyfriends or couple or couples or dating or domestic or girlfriend or girlfriends or husband or husbands or intimate or partner or partners or relationship or relationships or romance or romantic or spouse or spousal or wife or wives)) or (battered adj1 (females or males or men or women)) or (IPV not (high adj1 intrapatient adj1 variability))).ti,ab,kf,kw.)
This is a narrower search in that it relies heavily on terms appearing in the title or MeSH fields. One benefit is that a higher percentage of the results will be relevant and eliminates those records in which creating culturally sensitive programs/materials/training is recommended. However, there is the potential for items to be missed as well since the abstract & keyword fields aren't being searched and authors do not always list major study concepts in their titles.
("Cultural Competency"/ or "Culturally Competent Care"/ or (((cultural or culturally) adj3 (appropriate or appropriateness or competency or competent or inappropriate or incompetent or incompetency or insensitive or insensitivity or responsive or responsiveness or safe or sensitive or sensitivity)) or (culture adj2 appropriate)).ti.)
This search is more likely to find records in which cultural competency is recommended but not utilized in the study, but it will also find those records in which it was incorporated in some way in the research project but not indicated in the title using the filter search terms or MeSH terms.
("Cultural Competency"/ or "Culturally Competent Care"/ or (((cultural or culturally) adj3 (appropriate or appropriateness or competency or competent or inappropriate or incompetent or incompetency or insensitive or insensitivity or responsive or responsiveness or safe or sensitive or sensitivity)) or (culture adj2 appropriate)).ti,ab,kf,kw.)
This page on Wikipedia indicates the counties in each state that are part of the Appalachian region.
Copy the entire search string below and paste in Ovid Medline.
Appalachian Region/ or Appalachia*.ti,ab,kf,kw. or ((Alabama/ or Alabama.ti,ab,kf,kw.) and ((Bibb or Blount or Calhoun or Chambers or Cherokee or Chilton or Clay or Cleburne or Colbert or Coosa or Cullman or "De Kalb" or Elmore or Etowah or Fayette or Franklin or Hale or Jackson or Jefferson or Lamar or Lauderdale or Lawrence or Limestone or Macon or Madison or Marion or Marshall or Morgan or Pickens or Randolph or Shelby or "St. Clair" or Talladega or Tallapoosa or Tuscaloosa or Walker or Winston) adj1 (Counties or County)).ti,ab,kf,kw.) or (northern adj1 Alabama).ti,ab,kf,kw. or ((Georgia/ or Georgia.ti,ab,kf,kw.) and ((Banks or Barrow or Bartow or Carroll or Catoosa or Chattooga or Cherokee or Dade or Dawson or Douglas or Elbert or Fannin or Floyd or Forsyth or Franklin or Gilmer or Gordon or Gwinnett or Habersham or Hall or Haralson or Hart or Heard or Jackson or Lumpkin or Madison or Murray or Paulding or Pickens or Polk or Rabun or Stephens or Towns or Union or Walker or White) adj1 (Counties or County)).ti,ab,kf,kw.) or ((northern adj1 Georgia) or (northwestern adj1 Georgia)).ti,ab,kf,kw. or ((Kentucky/ or Kentucky.ti,ab,kf,kw.) and ((Adair or Adair County or Bath or Bath County or Bell or Bell County or Boyd or Boyd County or Breathitt or Breathitt County or Carter or Carter County or Casey or Casey County or Clark or Clark County or Clay or Clay County or Clinton or Clinton County or Cumberland or Cumberland County or Edmonson or Edmonson County or Elliott or Elliott County or Estill or Estill County or Fleming or Fleming County or Floyd or Floyd County or Garrard or Garrard County or Green or Green County or Greenup or Greenup County or Harlan or Harlan County or Hart or Hart County or Jackson or Jackson County or Johnson or Johnson County or Knott or Knott County or Knox or Knox County or Laurel or Laurel County or Lawrence or Lawrence County or Lee or Lee County or Leslie or Leslie County or Letcher or Letcher County or Lewis or Lewis County or Lincoln or Lincoln County or Madison or Madison County or Magoffin or Magoffin County or Martin or Martin County or McCreary or McCreary County or Menifee or Menifee County or Metcalfe or Metcalfe County or Monroe or Monroe County or Montgomery or Montgomery County or Morgan or Morgan County or Nicholas or Nicholas County or Owsley or Owsley County or Perry or Perry County or Pike or Pike County or Powell or Powell County or Pulaski or Pulaski County or Robertson or Robertson County or Rockcastle or Rockcastle County or Rowan or Rowan County or Russell or Russell County or Wayne or Wayne County or Whitley or Whitley County or Wolfe or Wolfe County) adj1 (Counties or County)).ti,ab,kf,kw.) or (eastern adj3 Kentucky).ti,ab,kf,kw. or ((Maryland/ or Maryland.ti,ab,kf,kw.) and ((Allegany or Garrett or Washington) adj1 (Counties or County)).ti,ab,kf,kw.) or (Western adj1 Maryland).ti,ab,kf,kw. or ((Mississippi/ or Mississippi.ti,ab,kf,kw.) and ((Alcorn or Benton or Calhoun or Chickasaw or Choctaw or Clay or Itawamba or Kemper or Lee or Lowndes or Marshall or Monroe or Montgomery or Noxubee or Oktibbeha or Panola or Pontotoc or Prentiss or Tippah or Tishomingo or Union or Webster or Winston or Yalobusha) adj1(Counties or County)).ti,ab,kf,kw.) or (northeastern adj1 Mississippi).ti,ab,kf,kw. or ((New York/ or "New York".ti,ab,kf,kw.) and ((Allegany or Broome or Cattaraugus or Chautauqua or Chemung or Chenango or Cortland or Delaware or Otsego or Schoharie or Schuyler or Steuben or Tioga or Tompkins) adj1 (Counties or County)).ti,ab,kf,kw.) or "southwestern New York".ti,ab,kf,kw. or ((North Carolina/ or (North adj1 Carolina).ti,ab,kf,kw.) and ((Alexander or Alleghany or Ashe or Avery or Buncombe or Burke or Caldwell or Catawba or Cherokee or Clay or Cleveland or Davie or Forsyth or Graham or Haywood or Henderson or Jackson or Macon or Madison or McDowell or Mitchell or Polk or Rutherford or Stokes or Surry or Swain or Transylvania or Watauga or Wilkes or Yadkin or Yancey) adj1 (Counties or County)).ti,ab,kf,kw.) or "Western North Carolina".ti,ab,kf,kw. or ((Ohio/ or Ohio.ti,ab,kf,kw.) and ((Adams or Ashtabula or Athens or Belmont or Brown or Carroll or Clermont or Columbiana or Coshocton or Gallia or Guernsey or Harrison or Highland or Hocking or Holmes or Jackson or Jefferson or Lawrence or Mahoning or Meigs or Monroe or Morgan or Muskingum or Noble or Perry or Pike or Ross or Scioto or Trumbull or Tuscarawas or Vinton or Washington) adj1 (Counties or County)).ti,ab,kf,kw.) or "southeastern Ohio".ti,ab,kf,kw. or ((Pennsylvania/ or Pennsylvania.ti,ab,kf,kw.) and ((Allegheny or Armstrong or Beaver or Bedford or Blair or Bradford or Butler or Cambria or Cameron or Carbon or Centre or Clarion or Clearfield or Clinton or Columbia or Crawford or Elk or Erie or Fayette or Forest or Fulton or Greene or Huntingdon or Indiana or Jefferson or Juniata or Lackawanna or Lawrence or Luzerne or Lycoming or McKean or Mercer or Mifflin or Monroe or Montour or Northumberland or Perry or Pike or Potter or Schuylkill or Snyder or Somerset or Sullivan or Susquehanna or Tioga or Union or Venango or Warren or Washington or Wayne or Westmoreland or Wyoming) adj1 (Counties or County)).ti,ab,kf,kw.) or ((central adj1 Pennsylvania) or (southwestern adj1 Pennsylvania) or (western adj1 Pennsylvania) or (northern adj1 Pennsylvania)).ti,ab,kf,kw. or ((South Carolina/ or (South adj1 Carolina).ti,ab,kf,kw.) and ((Anderson or Cherokee or Greenville or Oconee or Pickens or Spartanburg or Union County) adj1 (Counties or County)).ti,ab,kf,kw.) or "western South Carolina".ti,ab,kf,kw. or ((Tennessee/ or Tennessee.ti,ab,kf,kw.) and ((Anderson or Bledsoe or Blount or Bradley or Campbell or Cannon or Carter or Claiborne or Clay or Cocke or Coffee or Cumberland or "De Kalb" or Fentress or Franklin or Grainger or Greene or Grundy or Hamblen or Hamilton or Hancock or Hawkins or Jackson or Jefferson or Johnson or Knox or Lawrence or Lewis or Loudon or Macon or Marion or McMinn or Meigs or Monroe or Morgan or Overton or Pickett or Polk or Putnam or Rhea or Roane or Scott or Sequatchie or Sevier or Smith or Sullivan or Unicoi or Union or "Van Buren" or Warren or Washington or White) adj1 (Counties or County)).ti,ab,kf,kw.) or "eastern Tennessee".ti,ab,kf,kw. or ((Virginia/ or Virginia.ti,ab,kf,kw.) and ((Alleghany or Bath or Bland or Botetourt or Buchanan or Carroll or Craig or Dickenson or Grayson or Henry or Highland or Lee or Montgomery or Patrick or Pulaski or Rockbridge or Russell or Scott or Smyth or Tazewell or Washington or Wise or Wythe) adj1 (Counties or County)).ti,ab,kf,kw.) or "western Virginia".ti,ab,kf,kw. or exp West Virginia/ or ("West Virginia" or (charleston adj1 wv)).ti,ab,kf,kw.
(ill-housed persons/ or homeless youth/ or (Homeless or homelessness or ((dweller* or living or people) adj3 (street or streets)) or houseless* or (ill adj1 housed) or (rough adj1 (sleeper or sleepers)) or shelter or shelterless or shelters or undomiciled or unhoused).ti,ab,kf,kw.) not ((exp "Animals"/ or exp "Plants"/) not "Humans"/)