Medical literature retrieval or medical document retrieval is an activity that uses professional methods for medical research papers retrieval, report and other data to improve medicine research and practice.
Medical search engine
Professional medical search engine
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PubMed
PubMed is an openly accessible, free database which includes primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institute ...
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GoPubMed
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Pubget
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Scopus
Scopus is a scientific abstract and citation database, launched by the academic publisher Elsevier as a competitor to older Web of Science in 2004. The ensuing competition between the two databases has been characterized as "intense" and is c ...
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eTBLAST
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Cochrane Reviews,
The Cochrane Library
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SciELO
SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publishing model of open access journals. SciELO was created to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countrie ...
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Meta-search tools
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Trip
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NLM Gateway
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Entrez
The Entrez () Global Query Cross-Database Search System is a federated search engine, or web portal that allows users to search many discrete health sciences databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website. The NCB ...
, NLM's cross-database search
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SUMSearch
Consumer health search engine
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MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus is an online information service produced by the United States National Library of Medicine. The service provides curated consumer health information in English and Spanish with select content in additional languages.
The site brings ...
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U.S. NLM
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Healthfinder by the
U.S. HHS
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Mednar
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Healthline
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Medstory
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Healia
Search strategy
See also
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European Federation for Medical Informatics
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Evidence-based medicine
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. It means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available exte ...
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Health informatics
Health informatics combines communications, information technology (IT), and health care to enhance patient care and is at the forefront of the medical technological revolution. It can be viewed as a branch of engineering and applied science. ...
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International Medical Informatics Association
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Medical Subject Headings
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing Academic journal, journal articles and books in the Life science, life sciences. It serves as a thesaurus of index terms that facilitates searc ...
References
External links
MEDLINE/PubMed* William R. Hersh
Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective 2003, Springer-Verlag.
* Vincenta B. Vincentb M. Ferreira CG
Making PubMed Searching Simple: Learning to Retrieve Medical Literature Through Interactive Problem Solving 2005, The Oncologist, Vol. 11 No. 3 243-251
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About.com
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by Wendy Boswell
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American University of Beirut
The American University of Beirut (AUB; ) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its main campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, autonomous board of trustees and offers programs le ...
University Libraries
Medical literature
Medical search engines