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Clinical Queries Guide for PubMed

Clinical Queries in PubMed provides specialized searches that filter citations by clinical study categories including etiology, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, and clinical prediction guidelines. It allows searching for systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and clinical trials. Users can focus searches narrowly or broadly, and use medical subject headings or specific terms to target retrieval. General tips advise using specific disease terms instead of abbreviations and combining concepts with Boolean operators like AND and OR.

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Clinical Queries Guide for PubMed

Clinical Queries in PubMed provides specialized searches that filter citations by clinical study categories including etiology, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, and clinical prediction guidelines. It allows searching for systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and clinical trials. Users can focus searches narrowly or broadly, and use medical subject headings or specific terms to target retrieval. General tips advise using specific disease terms instead of abbreviations and combining concepts with Boolean operators like AND and OR.

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Anne Ross Library: Searching Resource Guide

PubMed: Clinical Queries

University of Medicine & Health Sciences

Clinical QueriesfeaturesspecializedPubMedsearchesthatfiltercitationretrievalbyclinicalstudy category,[Link] Queriesisavailableat: [Link] SearchbyClinicalStudyCategory:limitssearchesbythefollowingquestiontypesorclinicalstudy categories:etiology,diagnosis,therapy,prognosisandclinicalpredictionguidelines. Twoemphasiscategoriesorfiltersareprovided: narrow,specificsearchretrievesmoreprecise,relevantcitationsbutlessretrieval broad,sensitivesearchincludesrelevantcitationsmixedwithlessrelevant&moreretrieval

FindSystematicReviews:limitssearchestosystematicreviews,metaanalyses,reviewsofclinicaltrials, consensusdevelopmentconferences,andguidelines. GeneraltipsforusingClinicalQueries: Usespecificsubjecttermsormedicalsubjectheadings(MeSH).Forexample,ifyouwantclinical studiesonthediagnosisofaheartattack,[Link] termwillhelptargetyourretrieval. [Link],notUTI. Ifyouwanttosearchforsynonymousterms,suchaslungradiographorchestxraycapitalizetheOR connectorandtypeyourtermsthisway: LungradiographORchestxray IfyouwanttocombinetwodiscreteconceptscapitalizetheANDconnector: AsthmaANDInhaledcorticosteroid Noteonceyouareexaminingyourcitations,thereisanoption"relatedarticles",butselectingthis optionturnsoffthefiltersappliedbyClinicalQueriesincludinganylimitationsyoumayhave selected,suchaslanguageorage. ClinicalQueriesalsoallowsyoutosearchPubMedwithvalueaddedsearchfilters;stillyoucan furthermanipulateyoursearchbyaddingorsubtractingtermsinthesearchbox.
InformationforthishandoutwasgatheredfromtheNationalLibraryofMedicine,BostonUniversityAlumniMedical Library,andtheNewYorkAcademyofMedicineLibrary(copiedfromLaneMedicalLibrary,StanfordMedicalCenter).

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