Division of Drug Information Service   College of Pharmacy    The University of Iowa

IDIS/Web Tutorial - Search

You can enter terms in any field on the Search screen, or you can use the Look Up buttons to find the exact terms from the IDIS controlled vocabulary. For more information about the fields on this search template, see Search Screen.

The following pages will lead you through a search for articles about intranasal sumatriptan for the treatment of migraine headaches. You will select and combine the IDIS controlled vocabulary search terms for the drug (SUMATRIPTAN), disease (MIGRAINE) and descriptor (ADM NOSE).

Click Look Up next to the Drug field to continue.


Search screen Click to continue

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