Created 07/2014, updated annually

Objectives

After completing this tutorial you will have:

  • used Martindale’s via UpToDate LexiDrug to gather alternate names for a specific drug
  • joined the alternate terms to produce a comprehensive, PubMed, keyword  search
  • revised (if needed) the search based on information from the PubMed-produced warnings and search details.

 

Instructions for Using the Tutorial:

Please, read all the instructions in the next section before following the directions.  (When you complete the first step in this section, the instructions will be obscured.)

It will be easiest to complete this tutorial if you have two adjacent browser windows, one for the instructions and a second, separate “working” window.  Start by arranging the instruction window next to a new working window as follows:

    • click this link to open the library homepage in a new window or tab.
    • If the page opens in a new tab rather than a new window, pull the new tab away from this window so you have the two windows open on your screen simultaneously.

A screenshot tries to depict pulling a tab off of the open browser window

    • resize the new “working” window and this instruction window so that they can sit side by side on your computer screen.

A screenshot shows the working and instruction windows side-by-side. Arrows point to the "Contents" links and "Next" chapter link in the instruction panel.

    • Whenever you open a tab that covers the instruction panel, pull the new tab onto your working window. 

 

Important:

  • Chapter links appear at the bottom of the window (see black arrow to the link in the red footer in screenshot above).
  • Complete the steps on one page and then immediately go to the next page, or, if you are at the end of a ‘chapter’, click the link to the next chapter.
  • Don’t work ahead of the instructions.  It is easy to get lost or miss important instructions if you work ahead.
  • A contents menu is available above the text (See red arrow in screenshot above).  You can use this menu to jump between distant chapters.  The various “Contents” views toggle. Click to open the “Contents” panel or show the chapters in a section, re-click to close the contents panel or hide the individual chapters in a section

 

License

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Using Martindale's to Create a Drug Keyword Search Copyright © 2020 by Cynthia M. Schmidt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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