Recap: This portion of the search picks up where we left off at the end of Step #2, when the MeSH term for Atorvastatin was added to the PubMed Search Builder box within the entry page by clicking the button "Add to search builder" (as pictured in the screenshot below). The next several steps will explain and visualize how to add the keywords that were located in Step #3 to the same search box.
Within the PubMed Search Builder box on the MeSH entry page for Atorvastatin (pictured below) type in the keywords and synonyms with OR operators between each term (also pictured below). These are the keywords developed in Step #3. Note that the search box allows for direct typing, so all you have to do is click in the box and start typing in each synonym followed by the field tag [tiab]
"Atorvastatin"[Mesh] OR Atorvastatin[tiab] OR "(3R,5R)-7-(2-(4-Fluorophenyl)-5-isopropyl-3-phenyl-4-(phenylcarbamoyl)-1H-pyrrol-1-yl)-3,5-dihydroxyheptanoic acid"[tiab] OR "Atorvastatin Calcium"[tiab] OR "Atorvastatin, Calcium Salt"[tiab] OR Liptonorm[tiab] OR Lipitor[tiab] OR "Atorvastatin Calcium Hydrate"[tiab] OR "Atorvastatin Calcium Anhydrous"[tiab] OR "CI 981"[tiab] OR "CI-981"[tiab] OR "CI981"[tiab] OR "Atorvastatin Calcium Trihydrate"[tiab]
Pro Tip: Truncation. In PubMed you can use a * at the root of a word to find multiple endings. This technique is called "truncation." Truncation can be useful when entering synonyms for keywords into the search box, especially in cases where terms end in "s" (as seen in the example in the following section with female/females). Here are additional examples with different endings:
arthroplast* will return arthroplasty, arthroplasties, arthroplastic, arthroplastics, etc.
mobili* will return mobility, mobilization, mobilisation, mobilize, etc.
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