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  1. Michael H Zaroukian, MD, PhD
  1. Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, USA

    https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm.6.1.8

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      This resource review evaluates the “clinical queries” function of PubMed, a component of the Medline search interface developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). PubMed is a free, web based, public Medline search interface developed in cooperation with biomedical literature publishers to facilitate access to literature citations and linkages to full text journals at the web sites of participating publishers. This review considered the following clinical scenario:

      PubMed clinical queries, a web tool for filtered retrieval of citations relevant to evidence-based practice, can be accessed on www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.htm

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