How to do a Literature Review

Most database platforms will allow you to find variations of a word ending.  This is called truncation. In most databases it is an asterisk.

Example:

hospital* will retrieve hospital, hospitals, hospitalization

Most databases will let you search a phrase by putting quotation marks around the phrase.  Please note this does not always work, especially now that AI is used in several databases.  

Example:

"evidence based medicine"

Some database platforms allow for a wildcard.  This is used in a middle of a word.  Depending on the database platform, you may need a # or $.  Also depending on the database platform, this can be an optional character.

Example

wom$n

p#ediatrics (for British spelling)