MEDLINE
Option 1: Search for your topic (eg. Diabetes), then also include these suggested subject headings:
• Health Status Indicators | • Prevalence |
• Health Surveys | • Statistics as Topic |
• Incidence | • Survival Analysis |
• Morbidity | • Survival Rate |
• Mortality | • Vital Statistics |
If you are unsure as to the kinds of articles indexed with these subject headings, search for the subject term and look at their Scope Note(s).
Option 2: Subject headings will also be assigned subheadings. Subheadings allow you to find articles about a certain aspect of a subject heading. Search for your topic (e.g. Diabetes), then select the following subheadings if available:
Embase
Option 1: Search for your topic (eg. Diabetes), then also include these suggested subject headings:
• Biostatistics | • Mortality |
• Cancer statistics | • Prevalence |
• Epidemiological data | • Statistics |
• Health statistics | • Statistics as topic |
• Incidence | • Survival |
• Morbidity | • Vital statistics |
If you are unsure as to the kinds of articles indexed with these subject headings, search for the subject term and look at their Scope Note(s).
Option 2: Subject headings will also be assigned subheadings. Subheadings allow you to find articles about a certain aspect of a subject heading. Search for your topic (e.g. Diabetes), then select the subheading epidemiology, if available.
CINAHL
Option 1: Search for your topic (eg. Diabetes), then also include these suggested subject headings:
• Epidemiology | • Prevalence |
• Incidence | • Statistics |
• Morbidity | • Survival analysis |
• Mortality |
Option 2: Subject headings will also be assigned subheadings. Subheadings allow you to find articles about a certain aspect of a subject heading. Search for your topic (e.g. Diabetes), then select the following subheadings if available:
Option 3: Search for your topic (eg. Diabetes), then narrow by Statistics under Publication type in the Refine Results section. Note: this will only return items indexed as "Statistics"