Haz-Map Help Topics
- Text search
- Browse by categories
- Browse alphabetically
- Browse agents by adverse effects
- Find diseases by jobs and symptoms
- Display of related information
- Display of main record
- TOXNET search
Text search
- Text search: Enter a query, and click on the Text Search icon. The query words will be searched as text words in all Haz-Map text fields. Search results display in relevancy ranked order.
- Search by agent, disease or job:
To query multiple words by Agent Name, Disease Name, or Job Name,
enter your query, and click on the Agent, Disease, or Job icon.
The search will make wild card matches.
The query will match data containing all of the query terms as words
or word fragments in any order. For example, a search for
acute anemia as Disease will be translated into a query for
both "*acute*" and "*anemia*." Multiple words enclosed by double quotes (")
will be treated as phrases in the search.
- Special features for chemical searching:
When searching for agents, if there is an exact match
of an agent name with the query, the primary record will be returned
first in the search results.
If the search query is enclosed by
double quotes ("), only the primary record will be displayed.
Otherwise, other records that contain
the words or word fragments will be listed after the primary record.
For example: a search of ethyl alcohol will return Ethyl Alcohol
as the primary record.
In addition, 20 other records will be returned because they all contain
ethyl and alcohol in their Name and Synonyms fields.
You can also search a chemical by its CAS Registry Number.
- Searches by other categories:
Click on the More Searches tab to find additional information
by other categories, including Activities, Industries,
Job Tasks, Processes, and Symptoms.
Select a table that you would like to search, and enter
the query words in the box. The query words will be searched
as text words in the selected table. The results will display
in relevancy ranked order.
Browse by categories
- To traverse the hierarchical trees, simply
click on the hyperlink of a major category, and the tree will
expand to the next level of hierarchy.
You can navigate forward or backward at any time by clicking on the
hyperlinks.
Browse alphabetically
- You can also browse all the tables by alphabetical
listing of the records. Agents records have a special sort order,
for example, o-Anisidine appears in
"A", not in "O".
Browse agents by adverse effects
- You can search for all agents that have one or more potential
adverse effects. For example, view all agents that can cause
occupational asthma, or view all agents that can cause both asthma and
lung cancer. For checkboxes, you may select as many items as you like.
- Adverse effects in some categories are displayed in a list of radio
buttons. For radio buttons, you may select only one option in each group.
For example, in the category Neurotoxin, pick Parkinson syndrome to
see all agents with the potential to cause this syndrome.
- When checkboxes are used, it means that each agent may have one or
more of the listed adverse effects. When radio buttons are used,
it means that each agent may have only one of the adverse effects.
A neurotoxic agent is designated by the
one most prominent effect of five possible options.
- In the search result page, you can click on the Search Details link to see the
conditions that were checked for the search.
Find diseases by jobs and symptoms
- Search by Jobs: You can search
diseases related to a job by selecting a job from the pull-down menu.
- Search by Symptoms: You can search
diseases from their symptoms by checking the symptoms grouped by
organ/tissue systems.
- Search by Jobs and Symptoms: By
selecting both Job and Symptoms, you can
find diseases related to both. For example:
searching carpenters and cough.
- You can click on Search Details on the search result page to see what
job and/or symptoms you have selected.
Display of related information
- This page shows all the links to information related to the
particular record of interest. An example is the disease aplastic
anemia. In addition to the link to the main record for this disease, you
will also see links to "Symptoms associated with this disease," "Hazardous
agents that cause this disease," and "High risk job tasks associated with
this disease."
Display of main record
- Here, detailed information displays in a tabular format.
- In the Hyperlink fields, you can click on the link to see other information resources.
- In the Agents table, there are hyperlinks of the Field Name to the glossary page.
- If an agent is also a Category Name, for example,
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons,
a link is provided in the Category field to see the list
of agents belongng to the category.
Search TOXNET
- Click on this button to search all TOXNET databases.
- You can enter search words in the pop-up prompt box to make a search.
- You can also highlight a chunk of text on the page to launch a search.
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