Once you identify the most relevant keywords, you'll need to link them together in specific ways to target what you need. Click here to learn more:
Be brief and specific. Use only key concepts (keywords) that reflect exactly what you need. Here are examples:
1) What treatment options are available for fetal alcohol syndrome?
1st, think of alternative phrases for fetal alcohol syndrome
Combine any of these phrases with the term treatment. For example:
prenatal alcohol exposure treatment
Combine treatment with multiple terms for fetal alcohol syndrome. For example:
treatment (prenatal alcohol exposure OR alcohol exposed pregnancies OR fetal alcohol syndrome)
2) What can be done to reduce fetal alcohol syndrome? Because the question is about a reduction of the problem add the term prevention to one or more of the phrases above. For example:
fetal alcohol syndrome prevention
3) What are the most effective treatments for fetal alcohol syndrome?
To answer questions about treatment effectiveness use keywords that refer to study types. Try several search options:
fetal alcohol syndrome randomized controlled trial
prenatal alcohol exposure systematic review
To target specific types of information on your topic, try a variety of relevant keywords:
4) What terms can be used to determine the scope & magnitude of the problem?
5) What terms are useful for understanding the causes, correlates, harms associated with the problem?
6) What terms are relevant to the diagnosis of the problem?
7) What terms can be used to locate evidence for treatment/ intervention effectiveness?
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