One strategy that can make your research run more smoothly is the use of subject headings, like Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Subject headings are liek hashtags applied to articles when they are ingested to a database, and identify all the "subects" in each article. For example, you could do one search for articles with the subject heading "Carbonated Beverages," instead of searching for all variations of the word "pop" (i.e. "soda," "coke," "soft drink").
Most databases make their own brand of subject headings; PubMed uses "MeSH" (Medical Subject Headings), but CINAHL uses "CINAHL headings". They work the same, but are formatted differently.
("Maternal Health"[Mesh] OR "Pregnancy"[Mesh] OR "maternal morbidity") AND ("Mental Health"[Mesh] OR wellbeing)
In the example above, the subject headings have "Mesh" in brackets after the headings, which is an acronym for "Medical Subject Headings", the proprietary subject headings used on PubMed.
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) work like hashtags for articles, and using them when you search is much more efficient than keywords.
There are many MeSH which refer specifically to Clinical Laboratory Science. Click the links below to try these MeSH terms in a PubMed search in order to find articles written from a Medical Lab Science perspective (be careful with formatting, you can't have typos or extra punctuation, or your MeSH won't work!)
Just like PubMed, CINAHL has subject headings related to topics in Clinical Laboratory Science. Click the links below to try these subject headings in a CINAHL search (remember that formatting is very important with subject headings. Any typo, and they won't work!)
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