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Advanced Search Tips
An Advanced Keyword search provides fill-in boxes and drop-down menus that make searching easy. You can select either as a phrase, any of these, or all of these.
as a phrase: | words are searched as a unit (not separately) in the order entered |
example: | managed health care |
will be searched as: | "managed health care" |
all of these: | all the search words must be present in the record |
example | children divorce |
will be searched as | children AND divorce |
any of these: | either some or all of the search terms must be present in a record |
example | adolescen? youth teenager? |
will be searched as | adolescent OR adolescents OR youth OR teenager OR teenagers |