Review of Literature: How to do for a medical research

Presentation on how to do a literature search for medical research

1. Review of Literature DR K MD SHOYAIB Senior resident DEPT. of CFM AIIMS MANGALAGIRI

2. SOURCES OF LITERATURE

3. EXISTING RESEARCH Available as Research Articles. Research articles are published in Journals. Journals are indexed in databases.

4. How to find a book in library

5. Available database PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ : 28 million journals. EMBASE: https://www.embase.com/ : biomedical and pharmacological research. Cochrane Library: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/ : systematic reviews. PubMed Central (PMC): Free open access part of PubMed. CINAHL: For research related to Nursing and Allied Health topics. MEDLINE: subset of PubMed: Abstracts from high impact factor journals.

6. Search engine Google Scholar

7. How to search in pubmed

8. Search operators They define the relationship between keywords or a group of keywords. X AND Y X OR Y X NOT Y AND OR NOT

9. X AND Y X OR Y X NOT Y

10. OTHER OPERATORS WILDCARD: ? ANALY ? E: ANALYZE, ANALYSE TRUNCATION: * EPIDEMIO*: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL, EPIDEMIOLOGY

11. Mesh terms MeSH : Me dical S ubject H eadings

12. Search USING Mesh terms

13. Search using words in title abstract

14. Search in google scholar

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