Medical literature review: Search or perish

Literature review is a cascading process of searching, reading, analyzing, and summing up of the materials about a specific topic. However, searching the literature is like searching “a needle in a haystack”, and hence has been called “Cinderella”.(1) Therefore, skills and effective pathways of sear...

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Autor principal: Skaik, Younis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Professional Medical Publicaitons 2013
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24353606
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description Literature review is a cascading process of searching, reading, analyzing, and summing up of the materials about a specific topic. However, searching the literature is like searching “a needle in a haystack”, and hence has been called “Cinderella”.(1) Therefore, skills and effective pathways of searching the literature are needed to achieve high sensitive and specific results.
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spelling pubmed-38092672013-12-18 Medical literature review: Search or perish Skaik, Younis Pak J Med Sci Short Communication Literature review is a cascading process of searching, reading, analyzing, and summing up of the materials about a specific topic. However, searching the literature is like searching “a needle in a haystack”, and hence has been called “Cinderella”.(1) Therefore, skills and effective pathways of searching the literature are needed to achieve high sensitive and specific results. Professional Medical Publicaitons 2013-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3809267/ /pubmed/24353606 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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