Tools for Literature Discovery & "Growing the Pearl"
- PubMed Clinical Queriesapplies expert-developed filters to your clinical study topics
- PubTatorhelpful in discovery; highlights medical concepts in retrieved documents
- OpenEvidenceartificial intelligence system to aggregate, synthesize, and visualize clinically relevant evidence in understandable, accessible formats that can be used to make more evidenced-based decisions and improve patient outcomes
- PubMed and beyond: biomedical literature search in the age of artificial intelligence
overview of > 30 literature search tools tailored to common biomedical use cases
Searching for Landmark or Seminal Articles
Large, high-impact studies are likely published in the major journals of your specialty
Limit your search by Clinically Useful Journals
Ovid Medline
Search for your topic in the Ovid Medline search box. Then, Limit by Clinically Useful Journals.
PubMed
See text file & instructions below
- Search Strategy for Clinically Useful Journals in PubMedadd as Boolean AND to search strategy on a topic in PubMed. Refines search to a set of 240+ medical & health journals most often used in clinical practice
Literature Reviews, Systematic Reviews, & Scoping Reviews likely include large, high-impact, or good-quality studies
Ovid Medline
- Search for your topic in Ovid Medline search bar
- In a new search bar, copy & paste one or more of the strategies below
- Combine your topic's search string with the Review search string with AND to limit to review articles
- Select a few relevant reviews, and mine the references cited to locate key studies.
Search strategies & filters to refine search for reviews of all types
((literature adj review).ti,ab.) OR (review.pt. or (((integrated or integrative or narrative) adj (review or reviews)) or overview or ((state adj3 art) and (art adj (review or reviews)))).ti,ab,kf.)
Journals with "Clinics" OR "Current Opinion" in their titles often have nice overviews of topics, and may include discussions of key articles of interest.
Search strategy:
("current opinion" OR "clinics").jw
50 Studies Every Doctor Should Know -- by specialty
A concise summary is presented with an emphasis on the results and limitations of each study and its implications for practice.
50 Studies Every Intensivist Should Knowcritical care medicine
50 Studies Every Obstetrician-Gynecologist Should KnowCall Number: WQ 240 L5 2021key studies that have shaped the practice of obstetrics and gynecology. Aconcise summary is presented with an emphasis on the results and limitations of the study, and its implications for practice. An illustrative clinical case concludes each review, followed by brief information on other relevant studies.
Landmark Papers In . . . -- by specialty
More Studies to Know
- 2-Minute Medicine: Summaries of Landmark Trialssearchable, summaries with links to trials
- Wiki Journal Club: Summaries of Landmark Studieslinks to and summaries of landmark studies across medical specialities
- EvidenceAlertsfree, but must register to use; see Hit Parade, Most Read, and Highest Rated; can select specialties
- ACCESSSS (McMaster+)provides "one-stop" access to pre-appraised evidence to address this key question: what is the current best evidence available to support clinical decisions?