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Special Queries

Directory of Topic-Specific PubMed Queries

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Queries Targeted for Clinicians and Health Services Researchers

Clinical Queries

A search interface to find citations in the areas of:

  • Clinical Study Categories: Find citations corresponding to a specific clinical study category.
  • Systematic Reviews: Find citations for systematic reviews, meta-analyses, reviews of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, consensus development conferences, and guidelines.
  • Medical Genetics: Find citations related to various topics in medical genetics.

Health Services Research (HSR) Queries

A search interface to find PubMed citations relating to health care quality or to health care costs

Cancer Topic Searches

A search interface to retrieve PubMed citations on more than 100 major cancer topics

Healthy People 2010

A search interface providing searches for published literature related to the Healthy People 2010 focus areas of the HP2010 Information Access Project.

Subjects

AIDS

Limits search to the PubMed AIDS subset

Bioethics

Bioethics Information Resource page providing a PubMed search function using the PubMed Bioethics subset, and links to additional bioethics-related resources.

Cancer

Limits search to the PubMed Cancer subset

Complementary Medicine

Limits search to the PubMed Complementary Medicine subset

Health Disparities

PubMed search and links to other health disparities information resources

Health Literacy

PubMed search and links to other health literacy information resources

History of Medicine

Limits search to the PubMed History of Medicine subset

Space Life Sciences

Limits search to the PubMed Space Life Sciences subset

Smallpox

Comprehensive PubMed search and links to other smallpox information resources

Toxicology

Limits search to the PubMed Toxicology subset

Veterinary Medicine/Animal Health

PubMed search and links to other veterinary information resources

Additional Search Queries / Interfaces

ALTBIB

Provides a PubMed interface to search animal alternatives for biomedical research and testing

CAM on PubMed

Provides information on searching for complementary and alternative medicine citations in PubMed

MedlinePlus Health Topics

Provides several search mechanisms for searching for health topics of interest to the general public in PubMed

National Institutes of Health Funding Support

Provides a search in PubMed for citations designated as funded by NIH Institutes.

Retracted Publication

Provides a search in PubMed for all citations designated as a retracted publication

TOXNET

Provides a series of toxicological databases, several of which include a PubMed seach option/function

Journal Collections

Core clinical journals

Limits search to the PubMed Core clinical journal subset

Dental journals

Limits search to the PubMed Dental journal subset

Nursing Journals

Limits search to the PubMed Nursing journals subset

Last reviewed: 18 March 2008
Last updated: 18 March 2008
First published: 23 February 2005
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