Medical literature retrieval

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Medical literature retrieval or medical document retrieval is an activity that using professional methods for medical research papers retrieval, report and other data to improve medicine research and practice.

Contents 1 Medical Search engine 1.1 Professional medical search engine 1.1.1 Meta-search tools 1.2 Consumer health search engine 2 Search strategy 3 Reference 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Medical Search engine

[edit] Professional medical search engine

• Pubmed
• GoPubMed^[1]
• Cochrane Reviews, The Cochrane Library

[edit] Meta-search tools

• TRIP Database
• NLM Gateway
• Entrez, NLM's cross-database search
• SUMSearch

[edit] Consumer health search engine

• MedlinePlus by the U.S. NLM
• Healthfinder by the U.S. HHS
• Mednar
• Healthline
• Medstory
• Healia

[edit] Search strategy

[edit] Reference

[edit] See also

• Health informatics
• Medical Subject Headings
• Evidence-based medicine
• International Medical Informatics Association
• European Federation for Medical Informatics

[edit] External links

• MEDLINE/PubMed
• William R. Hersh. Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective. 2003, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0387955224
• The Top Five Medical Search Engines on the Web at About.com by Wendy Boswell