PubMed is highly utilized by all types of health care practitioners because it's one of the best places to find original (primary) research studies. PubMed is the major biomedical and life sciences database and it is HUGE (over 22,000,000 citations), so it takes some practice to get the best results.
Searching PubMed:
- Try to think of how a researcher would describe your topic in choosing your search terms (keywords). This method is efficient, and can work well when you're not concerned about capturing all/most of the relevant research on a particular topic.
- If you have too many results, set (additional) filters; for too few results use additional synonyms or broader search terms. Note: Once you set filters (limits), they stay set for future searches until you remove them.
- Remember to look up your terms in the MESH database, but come back to the PubMed search screen to run your search.
- Once you set limits (filters), they stay set for future searches unless removed.
- After opening the citation of an article, look for the maroon colored "Bastyr Online" button, to access to full text of the article.
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