If you've tried the steps outlined in PubMed for Guidelines and are overwhelmed, try the following:

1) Click on Advanced below the PubMed search box to go to the Advanced Search

2) Once in the Advanced Search, you'll use the top box with Add terms to the query box written above it, and to the left. Enter only 1 concept in the box before moving it to the Query box by clicking on Add.

3. Before adding your keyword(s) to the Query box, consider switching from All Fields to Title. If your keywords are found in the title the article is more likely to be on-topic.

4. After you've clicked Add for your first concept, then enter your 2nd concept in the top box, and click on AND so both terms display in the lower Query box

5. You're now ready to click on Search next to the Query box, unless you have a 3rd or more concepts to add! Notice what shows in the Query box. This is "database speak". Databases' Advanced Searches help us to properly search databases using databases' search syntax.

6. Hopefully you've now found the guideline you're after. Click on Ferris FullText to see the guideline.

Think of words that mean the same thing

Guidelines are also sometimes called consensus statements. In an advanced search, you may want to consider using:   guidelines or consensus

For the condition, if there are alternate terms, also use those!  For example: "myocardial infarction" or "myocardial infarctions" or "heart attack" or "heart attacks"

Note: For the above search string, whenever you use quote marks, it tells the database (even Google) that the keywords must appear exactly as between quotes. Because of this both the singular and plural forms were used. Additionally, MI was not used, because this would likely bring up too many unwanted results.