Ovid Emcare with Ovid Nursing Journals

Ovid is a wonderful resource, with customizable search options and filters. When searching Ovid, use the Multi-field Search option. This will allow you to break your PICO questions into parts. 

Creating Your Search

1. Find your terms: You can use MeSh terms. To find these:
   1. Select the Multi-field Search option and change the dropdown from All Fields to MeSH Heading Word, then enter your keywords.
2. Determine your filters: With Ovid's customizable search filters, you will need to select your search filters. To do this: 
   1. Expand the Limits dropdown. Located near the search button.  
   2. Click Edit Limits
   3. Select the check boxes for the filters you want and click Customize Limits.
   • For our example we would want the "Human age group"  filter to be available. 
3. Using the Multi-field option to build your search query. 
   • Search each part of your PICO question separately first.