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MEDLINE: PubMed and Ovid Platforms: Clinical Queries

Platforms for searching MEDLINE.

Accessing Clinical Queries on PubMed homepage

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Filters

Clinical Queries contains 3 search filters:

  • Clinical Study Categories
  • Systematic Reviews
  • Medical Genetics

Clinical Study Categories - This specialized search query is intended for clinicians to limit retrieval to articles that report research conducted with methodology to answer questions based on 5 study categories:

     1. Etiology

     2. Diagnosis

     3. Therapy

     4. Prognosis

     5. Clinical Guidelines

These categories may be searched in a broad or sensitive manner which includes relevant citation that are probably less relevant to the question at hand or in a narrow or specific manner which will retrieve more precise relevant citations.

Systematic Reviews - This filter is "intended to retrieve citations identified as systematic reviews, meta-analyses, reviews of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, consensus development conferences, guidelines, and citations to articles from journals, specializing in review studies of value to clinicians".

Medical Genetics - finds citations related to various topics in medical genetics