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First published online December 18, 2013

How to improve your PubMed/MEDLINE searches: 2. display settings, complex search queries and topic searching

Farhad Fatehi [email protected], Leonard C Gray, and Richard WoottonView all authors and affiliations
Volume 20, Issue 1
https://doi.org/10.1177/1357633X13517067

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The way that PubMed results are displayed can be changed using the Display Settings drop-down menu in the result screen. There are three groups of options: Format, Items per page and Sort by, which allow a good deal of control. The results from several searches can be temporarily stored on the Clipboard. Records of interest can be selected on the results page using check boxes and can then be combined, for example to form a reference list. The Related Citations is a valuable feature of PubMed that can provide a set of similar articles when you have identified a record of interest among the results. You can easily search for RCTs or reviews using the appropriate filters or field tags. If you are interested in clinical articles, rather than basic science or health service research, then the Clinical Queries tool on the PubMed home page can be used to retrieve them.

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Volume 20, Issue 1
Pages: 44 - 55
Article first published online: December 18, 2013
Issue published: January 2014

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Farhad Fatehi
School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Centre for Online Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Leonard C Gray
Centre for Online Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Centre for Research in Geriatric Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Richard Wootton
Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
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Farhad Fatehi, Centre for Online Health, Level 2, Building 33, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. Email: [email protected]

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