Ways of Entering Keywords

Parts of the body or organs - You can enter parts of the body or the names of organs as keywords, for example:

• type in nose to search for nasal fracture;.
• type in stomach to find gastric ulcer under stomach diseases.

Symptoms – Entering symptoms in Keyword such as swelling, pain, fracture, acute, chronic can produce an unmanageably long list through which to scroll. It is recommended that these words can be used in the Search Text in conjunction with keywords, but first type the site in the Keyword in order to be more specific, for example, entering Wrist in Keyword and Fracture in Search Text; or Keyword – asthma, Search Text- chronic.

Type in a common term, such as, for example, boil in order to find furuncle.

Part keywords - If you type nothing at Keyword but click on Find, the Read dictionary will list from the very beginning. You can type in as little or as much of the Keyword as you like, but this determines the listing point, for example:

• typing H at Enter Keyword lists alphabetically from the beginning of H;
• typing He or Hea lists from Head;
• typing Hear lists from Hearing;
• typing Heart lists from Heart.

For hypertension, type in a keyword of Hyperten and a list will be displayed for selection.

Be specific but not too specific – for example, CONTRACEPTION would not find any entries with keyword CONTRACEPTIVE - therefore use CONTRACEP.

Keywords to avoid - Try to avoid terms such as Pain, Acute and Chronic as keywords because the resulting lists are very long.

Words that are frequently used, such as Acute or Hyper are not used as keywords because the selection list would be too long. If you want to enter a description such as Acute frontal sinusitis, type in either Front or Sinus.

Abbreviations, acronyms, eponyms - You may use:

• abbreviations: eg, IHD, HB, CT;
• or acronyms: eg, BP, D&V;TATT;
• or eponyms: eg, for Wilson's disease, type in Wilson; Osgood-Schlatter's disease, type in Osgood or Schlatter.