title: Literature search using PubMed: an essential tool for practicing evidence- based medicine.
abstract: Efficient literature search is essential to the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine. PubMed provides free access to one of the largest searchable biomedical databases. Efficient literature search using PubMed requires a good understanding of the available search strategies and tools. In this article we present a step-by-step approach for performing literature search using PubMed. Several PubMed tools including 'Single Citation Matcher', 'Clinical Queries', 'Clipboard', 'Field Tags', and 'Cubby' are highlighted using case based scenarios.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sood
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Ghosh
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D000328:Adult; D003628:Database Management Systems; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D008875:Middle Aged; D039781:PubMed; D014584:User-Computer Interface