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Hi Erin,</div>
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I just gave this a try and can confirm that if I copy and paste those queries into the APA PsycInfo basic search bar, I get those same strangely small results. However, when I reconstructed this query:</div>
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(DE "expectant mothers") OR (DE pregnancy) OR (DE "pregnancy outcomes" OR (DE "obstetrical complications") OR (DE "premature birth") OR (XB “pregnan*”) </div>
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--using Advanced Search, I got 85,127 results. Unfortunately, the advanced search feature isn't advanced enough to fully reconstruct the longer query, so this isn't necessarily the best work-around. Hopefully this can help point EBSCO support in the right direction,
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My EBSCO ticket is slowly making its way through the support center, but I was wondering if any of you super searchers can verify the weird results we're seeing in PsycInfo via EBSCOhost new UI. Full details below.</div>
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Our librarians reported unexpected behavior and numbers of results when using the PsycINFO search for a systematic review. Is there an issue with the logic or are these searches malfunctioning? <br>
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This is one search block that is only giving us 2 results:<br>
((DE "Expectant Mothers") OR (DE Pregnancy) OR (DE "Pregnancy Outcomes") OR (DE "Obstetrical Complications") OR (DE "Premature Birth") OR (XB “pregnan*”) OR (XB gestation*) OR (DE Fertility) OR (DE "Fertility Enhancement") OR (DE "Infertility") OR (XB fertilit*) OR
(XB infertilit*) OR (XB "premature birth*") OR (XB "expecting mother*" ) OR (XB "pregnant adult*") OR (XB "high risk pregnanc*") OR (XB "fertility treat*") OR (XB "infertility treat*") OR (DE Sexual Reproduction) OR (DE "Reproductive Health") OR (DE "Reproductive
Health Care") OR (DE "Reproductive Technology") OR (DE "Sterilization (Sex)") OR ((XB reproduc*) AND ((XB health*) OR (XB medicine) OR (XB behavior*) OR (XB technique*) OR (XB technolog*) OR (XB histor*) OR (XB steriliz*))) OR (DE Parents) OR (DE Parenting) OR (XB
parent*) OR (DE Mothers) OR (XB mother*))<br>
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If only include the first five descriptors, I get 2530:<br>
(DE "Expectant Mothers") OR (DE Pregnancy) OR (DE "Pregnancy Outcomes") OR (DE "Obstetrical Complications") OR (DE "Premature Birth")<br>
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Just searching (XB “pregnan*”) gives me 58,930.<br>
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Now if I try to put those two searches together with OR, I get 4 results!<br>
(DE "Expectant Mothers") OR (DE Pregnancy) OR (DE "Pregnancy Outcomes") OR (DE "Obstetrical Complications") OR (DE "Premature Birth") OR (XB “pregnan*”) </div>
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