Define your search topic and focus your research question

Databases often contain millions of citations, but not all of them will be relevant to your information needs. Think carefully about your topic and be specific about the search concepts.

Our topic for this tutorial is -- nursing research on the care and management of fatigue in cancer patients.

The key concepts for our topic are:

• cancer -- we are interested in patients with any type of cancer

• fatigue

• management of fatigue -- which might include various therapies, nursing care, prevention, or rehabilitation

• research studies