Evidence-Based Practice / Unit 3 EBP 0353 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Truncation
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The idea
Truncation searches a word stem so that its variant endings are all retrieved by one term.
In practice
One truncated stem capturing diagnose, diagnosis, diagnoses and diagnosing together.
Where people slip
Truncating too short retrieves words you did not intend. A short stem can pull in an entire unrelated vocabulary without any sign that it has.
Your place on the trail
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