Search Tips

Keywords

Use as many keywords as possible to get the most accurate search results. Results are returned when they contain ALL of the listed keywords.

Capitalization

Searches are case-insensitive, meaning that it does not matter whether words are spelled using capitalization or not. For example, searching for DOCTOR is equivalent to searching for doctor.

Advanced Searching

Boolean Operators

The terms and, or, and not may be used between keywords to form more complex queries. For example, searching for duke and hospital would return results that had both the terms duke and hospital in them. Searching for duke or hospital would return pages that had either duke or hospital in them. Searching for duke and not hospital would return pages that have duke in them, but not have hospital in them.

Note that the not keyword can only be used in and expressions. It is not valid to search on not duke or duke or not hospital.

Phrase Searching

It is possible to search for an exact phrase by enclosing the phrase in double-quotes. For example, searching for "duke hospital" will only match pages that contain the phrase duke hospital, whereas searching for duke hospital (without the quotes) is equivalent to searching for duke and hospital and would match any pages that contain both individual words.

Wildcards

In general searches are for whole words. An asterisk can be used as a wildcard at the end of a word. For example, searching for sick* would match pages containing any of the words sick, sickness, sickly, etc. Searching for sick only matches pages containing the exact word sick.