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Theres an option for Advanced Search next to the fields box. Whats an Advanced Search, and could it help me?

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Theres an option for Advanced Search next to the fields box. Whats an Advanced Search, and could it help me?

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An advanced search allows you to restrict your search (and thereby your search results) by field and date, as well as to use the advanced operators AND, OR, and NOT in conducting your search. To limit your search by field, type your search term in the Keywords box and choose the field/fields you’d like to search. The fields available in the advanced search are different from those available in the basic search. To limit by date, either choose a predetermined date restriction from the drop-down menu to the right of the word Dates or click on the circle next to From and enter your own dates. Note that the default in the Keywords advanced search is to “match text exactly.” Matching text exactly is essentially the same as searching for an exact phrase (i.e., a phrase in quotation marks), so searching using a string of words will likely not provide the results you need. Let’s say you’d like to find articles about sterilizing loaner instruments and type loaner instruments sterilization into

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