Medical literature retrieval is an activity that using professional methods for medical research papers retrieval, report and other data to improve medicine research and practice. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...

Medical Search engine

Professional medical search engine

• Pubmed
• Cochrane Reviews The Cochrane Library

Medline is a comprehensive literature database of life sciences and biomedical information. ...

Meta-search tools

• TRIP Database
• NLM Gateway
• Entrez, NLM's cross-database search
• SUMSearch

Catalog

• MedWeb (MedWeb Primary Subject Index) by The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University
• HealthWeb by the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)

Emory University is a private university located in the metropolitan area of the city of Atlanta and in western unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. ...

Consumer health search engine

• MedlinePlus by the U.S. NLM
• Healthfinder by the U.S. HHS
• Healthline
• Medstory
• GoPubMed
• Healia [1]
• Amniota

MedlinePlus (medlineplus. ... The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the U.S. federal government, is the worlds largest medical research library. ... The United States Department of Health and Human Services, often abbreviated HHS, is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

Consumer health information

• WebMD
• Mayo Clinic medical information
• InteliHealth

Search strategy

Methodology-based retrieval

Selection criteria

Synonyms Words

Medical Document Retrieval

See also

• Health informatics
• Medical Subject Headings
• Evidence-based medicine
• International Medical Informatics Association
• European Federation for Medical Informatics

Electronic patient chart of a health information system Health informatics or medical informatics is the intersection of information science, computer science and health care. ... Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a huge controlled vocabulary (or metadata system) for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences. ... Evidence-based medicine (EBM) or scientific medicine is an attempt to apply more uniformly the standards of evidence gained from the scientific method to certain aspects of medical practice. ... IMIA or the International Medical Informatics Association is an independent organisation that plays a role in promoting and furthering the application of information science in modern society, particularly in the fields of healthcare, bioscience and medicine. ... The European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) is a non-profit organization, which was conceived at a meeting, assisted by the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organisation (WHO), in Copenhagen, (Denmark, Europe), in September 1976. ...

External links

• MEDLINE/PubMed
• William R. Hersh. Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective. 2003, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0387955224
• Dr. William R. Hersh's personal website
• The Top Five Medical Search Engines on the Web at About.com by Wendy Boswell
• Medical literature retrieval (serials) on DXY in Chinese
• Search & retrieval (serials) on DXY in Chinese
• Methodology-based retrieval for EBM in Chinese