Search Engine Behavior

What does the search at the top of the page include?
This page searches both for top-level websites and journals (for instance, JAMA) and well as our locally indexed collection of evidence-based documents.

What does the PrimeEvidence search include?
PrimeEvidence is a collection of about 350 evidence summaries, practice guidelines, prediction rules and management algorithms from the high-quality sources for primary care. See this page for more detailed information on our sources.

How do I search for links & documents on PrimeAnswers?

Use the Boolean operators AND or OR to establish relationships between search terms.

The search engine implicitly assumes an AND between each word in your search phrase.

Capitalization is not important for search terms; either upper or lowercase letters will work.

An asterisk may be used to truncate words: cell* finds cells, cellular, etc.