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Getting the Most Out of CINAHL: CINAHL Headings

An overview of using CINAHL to find information on nursing and allied health disciplines.

What are CINAHL Headings?

CINAHL Headings is a controlled vocabulary of subject terms. These terms are used to describe the content of the materials indexed in CINAHL. Using CINAHL Headings in searches saves you, the searcher, time and effort by bringing together multiple ways to refer to a disease, condition, anatomical part, or concept under a single term.

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