Health Informatics and Information Management

When entering keywords or terms into a search field in a scholarly database:

• Use quotation marks to combine multiple words into a single phrase or concept.
  Example: "medicare part b"
   
• Connect key terms with AND to specify you want resources that include both terms.
  Example: medicare AND reimbursement
   
• Add related terms or synonyms to widen your search. Connect these terms with OR to find resources that contain one, some, or all of the terms. 
  Example: information OR data OR records OR documentation   
   
• Enclose related terms and synonyms in parentheses to specify that the database should parse them as a single unit. (Think mathematical order of operations.)
  Example: (data OR records OR information) AND patient