How do I use the PubMed search strategy?

How do I use the PubMed search strategy?

To search by author using the search builder, click Advanced search and then select Author from the All Fields menu. The author search box includes an autocomplete feature. You may click an author link on the abstract display to execute a search for the author in PubMed.

What is difference between PubMed and MEDLINE?

MEDLINE is the main part of PubMed, an online, searchable, database of research literature in the biomedical and life sciences. PubMed includes links to many full-text journal articles via PubMed Central.

Does MEDLINE have systematic reviews?

This strategy is intended to retrieve citations to systematic reviews in PubMed and encompasses: citations assigned the “Systematic Review” publication type during MEDLINE indexing; citations that have not yet completed MEDLINE indexing; and non-MEDLINE citations. This filter can be used in a search as systematic [sb].

Is MEDLINE a good database?

MEDLINE is a great resource for medical research because it is authoritative, peer-reviewed, and complete (as much as possible, anyway). MEDLINE is authoritative because it permits you to see who exactly conducted the research, who wrote the results, and even where the research was conducted.

Is PubMed a reliable source?

PubMed delivers a publicly available search interface for MEDLINE as well as other NLM resources, making it the premier source for biomedical literature and one of the most widely accessible resources in the world.

Should I use PubMed or MEDLINE?

Ovid Medline is an interface for searching only Medline content. Pubmed is more user-friendly and allows you to search through more content than Ovid Medline. However, Ovid Medline allows you to perform a more focused search. You will get slightly different results by searching in each database.

Is MEDLINE indexed same as PubMed indexed?

MEDLINE is the largest subset of PubMed. You may limit your PubMed search retrieval to MEDLINE citations by restricting your search to the MeSH controlled vocabulary or by using the Journal Categories filter called MEDLINE.

Is Scopus the same as MEDLINE?

Scopus includes the records from the MEDLINE and EMBASE databases, among other included sources. As such, Scopus has more than double the number of records in PubMed, with 54M+ records in Scopus compared to PubMed’s 24M+ records.

What is the difference between MEDLINE and CINAHL?

Even though CINAHL and MEDLINE use many of the same subject headings, CINAHL includes over 1,000 additional ones that are more reflective of nurs- ing terminology.

Is MEDLINE a primary source?

Finding Primary MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

Is PubMed a good source?

Why is PubMed better?

Unlike Google Scholar, PubMed provides indexed content that is directly relevant to physicians, including clinical controlled vocabulary (MeSH [medical subject headings]), search limits (such as limiting articles by age or study type), and access to discipline-specific and methods search filters [24,41-43].

What is the advantage of PubMed search?

Is PubMed or Scopus better?

PubMed remains an optimal tool in biomedical electronic research. Scopus covers a wider journal range, of help both in keyword searching and citation analysis, but it is currently limited to recent articles (published after 1995) compared with Web of Science.

Why is PubMed better than CINAHL?

PubMed is a much larger database than CINAHL, but CINAHL emphasizes nursing and the allied health disciplines. In addition to journal articles, CINAHL includes books, book chapters, dissertations, and computer programs. PubMed does not. There is an overlap in the journals indexed by these two databases.

What is MEDLINE known for?

Medline is a global manufacturer and distributor serving the healthcare industry with medical supplies and clinical solutions that help customers achieve both clinical and financial success.