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 a free search engine accessing 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 Institutes of Health maintai ...
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GoPubMed GoPubMed was a knowledge-based search engine for biomedical texts. The
Gene Ontology (GO) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) served as "Table of contents" in order to structure the millions of articles in the MEDLINE database. MeshPubMed was at on ...
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Pubget
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Scopus
Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top- ...
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eTBLAST
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Cochrane Reviews
Cochrane (previously known as the Cochrane Collaboration) is a British international charitable organisation formed to organise medical research findings to facilitate evidence-based choices about health interventions involving health profess ...
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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 countri ...
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Twease
Meta-search tools
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Trip
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NLM Gateway
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Entrez
The Entrez (pronounced ''ɒnˈtreɪ'') 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 ...
, 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
Healthline Media, Inc. is an American website and provider of health information headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1999, relaunched in 2006, and established as a standalone entity in January 2016.
Accuracy
There ar ...
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Medstory
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Healia
Healia is a health vertical search engine and online health community. Healia's search engine uses algorithms to assess quality and to categorize Web documents. Healia Communities is composed of online health support groups that enable people to s ...
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". The aim of EBM is to integrate the experience of the clinician, the values of t ...
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Health informatics
Health informatics is the field of science and engineering that aims at developing methods and technologies for the acquisition, processing, and study of patient data, which can come from different sources and modalities, such as electronic hea ...
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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 journal articles and books in the life sciences. It serves as a thesaurus that facilitates searching. Created and updated by the United States ...
References
External links
MEDLINE/PubMed* William R. Hersh
Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective 2003, Springer-Verlag. {{ISBN, 0-387-95522-4
* 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 by Wendy Boswell
25 Search Engines Every Medical Professional Should BookmarkPubMed Alternative Enginesat
American University of Beirut
The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...
University Libraries
Medical literature
Medical search engines