This tutorial was created by librarians at the Health Sciences & Human Services Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. It provides an introduction to searching for articles in CINAHL.
Use AND to narrow your search.
When using AND, it will find records that have both terms in them. For example the following will search for articles that have both diabetes and hypertension somewhere in the text when doing a keyword search.
Use OR to expand your search.
When using OR in a keyword search, it will find records that have either or both terms in them. For example the following will search for articles that have either high blood pressure or hypertension or both.
