2 Scan Search Results

If you revised your search, most of the irrelevant results should be gone.

  • Scan the results  looking for highlighted terms (terms from your search strategy) .  Are the terms being used for the concept of interest to you or a different, irrelevant concept?  Sometimes numbers that are present in the CAS registry number will be highlighted, even if these numbers were not responsible for retrieving the record.  Look for other search terms in the record.  Only consider removing a search term containing these numbers from your search strategy if the records in question contain none of your other search terms.
  • If a term is being used for another concept, and this is happening frequently; remove the problematic term from the search strategy.  List it under the following heading for removed terms:

 

Drug names removed from the search because of common but irrelevant meanings that caused retrieval of irrelevant results:

 

A screenshot of the results of the omacetaxine search shows that HHT, a standard abbreviation for homoharringtonine/omacetaxine is also used very frequently for other concepts (like hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia). 

A screenshot of some of the results of the omacetaxine search show the irrelevant uses of HHT.

In this example, HHT would be removed from the search producing the following output for this assignment.

(Omacetaxin* OR 26833-87-4 OR Ceflatonin OR CGX-635 OR CGX635 OR Homoharringtonine OR NSC-141633 OR NSC141633 OR Chuan-Shan-Ning OR Fu-Er OR Gao-Rui-Te OR Hua-Pu-Le OR Jin-Nuo-Xing OR Sai-Lan OR Wo-Ting OR Synribo)

Drug names removed from the search because of common but irrelevant meanings that caused retrieval of irrelevant results:  HHT

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