My colleagues and I are working on a framework development project that involves reviewing all types of published health researches/studies (primary and secondary) conducted in/for the Philippines during the last 5 years.
One part of the review involves searching literature from databases such as PubMed, CINAHL, ScienceDirect, Google scholar, EMBASE, and JStor. We are having a hard time filtering studies relevant to the Philippines. Can somebody suggest a working keyword search strategy?
Thanks in advance!
You can search in national health databases in Philippines like http://www.herdin.ph/ or https://www.gov.ph/health-and-social-services
I already covered local literature from Philippine repositories. The challenge that our team currently experiences is covering studies done for the Philippines which are published in international journals and/or indexed in globally-accessible repositories (MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL).
Hi Karl,
I agree with your deduction. The string of keywords I use are in conjunction with the power keyword in our search strategy, Philippine/s. I will try and experiment on using the "search all fields" option.
Thank you!
-Arizaldo
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