2. What is PubMed?
“PubMed is a free resource that is developed
and maintained by the National Center for
Biotechnology Information (NCBI), that
covers journal articles in medicine,
nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine,
and the health care system.”
3. Why Use PubMed?
PubMed comprises over 24 million citations for biomedical literature,1,40,000
supplementary concepts, and online books of biomedicine and life sciences,
behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.
It has information about 5,200 medical journal articles in 40 languages dating back to
1949,and updated daily from the publishers.
PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other
NCBI molecular biology resources.
4. How made advance searching
Boolean logic (AND, OR, and
NOT),
Truncation.
Phrase searching
Building Blocks
7. Less Time
Less Work
Less Evidence
More Time
More Work
More Evidence
Systematic Reviews of
Randomized Controlled Trials
Critically Appraised Topics
Randomized Controlled Trials
Case Controlled
Studies
Publication type
Case Reports
Clinical Trial
Comparative Study
Evaluation Studies
Meta-Analysis
Validation Studies
Comparison with other database
