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Searching the literature for the topic aboriginal

Len Kelly and Natalie St Pierre-Hansen
Canadian Family Physician November 2008, 54 (11) 1572-1573.e5;
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    Results of a MeSH term search for North American and international articles on the topic aboriginal: Ovid MEDLINE vs EMBASE.

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    Results of a MeSH term search for North American and international articles on the topic aboriginal: Ovid MEDLINE vs PsycINFO.

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    Number of articles found through searches using text words for the topic aboriginal

    NUMBER OF ARTICLES
    TEXT WORDSHEALTHSTAR 1975-JULY 2007OVID MEDLINE 1950-JULY 2007PUBMED MEDLINE 1950-JULY 2007EBM REVIEWS 1948-JULY 2007CINAHL 1982- JULY 2007EMBASE 1974-JULY 2007PSYCINFO 1872-JULY 2007
    Native22 72896 703100 375797403877 21710 260
    Indian12 66021 30131 980618163817 9468876
    Aboriginal2531302232825571321861056
    First Nation$*1175127092426431938355
    Ojibway243232902021
    • ↵* Truncation for First Nation and First Nations.

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    Number of articles found through searches using various MeSH terms for the topic aboriginal

    NUMBER OF ARTICLES
    MESH TERMSHEALTHSTAR 1975-JULY 2007OVID MEDLINE 1950-JULY 2007PUBMED MEDLINE 1950-JULY 2007*EBM REVIEWS 1948-JULY 2007CINAHL 1982- JULY 2007EMBASE 1974-JULY 2007PSYCINFO 1872-JULY 2007
    First Nations, North American
     Indigenous populations980
     Indigenous people319321
     Aborigines08842059
     Tribes651
     American native continental ancestry group13515912 924
     Native Americans2877
     Indians, North American711288228736102
     American Indian23433949
     Alaska Natives222
    Other aboriginal
     Indians, South American1546238423587
     Indians, Central American189318318
     Eskimo202355
     Inuit211024082399299
     Maori223228
     Pacific islander288155
     Oceanic ancestry group338640334014
    Total distinct articles found using all MeSH terms combined with Boolean OR12 13516 99316 834109435652945367
    • ↵* PubMed search using MeSH-only strategy.

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