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What is PubMed Clinical Queries?

PubMed Clinical Queries is a tool created for clinicians to quickly find evidence without performing a full literature search.

The tool is used to limit search results to specific clinical research areas:

• Clinical Studies
• Systematic Reviews
• Medical Genetics

You can access PubMed Clinical Queries here.

Once you have entered relevant terms from your research question:

• Select a Study Category from the dropdown menu

• There are five Clinical Study Categories:
  • Etiology - Filter uses search terms related to cohort studies and risk.
  • Diagnosis - Filter uses search terms related to diagnosis, specificity or sensitivity.
  • Therapy (default choice) - Filter uses search terms related to clinical trials, controlled trials, random allocation and theraputic use.
  • Prognosis - Filter uses search terms related to prognosis, cohort studies, follow-up studies, incidence and prediction.
  • Clinical Prediction Guides - Filter uses language related to validation, observer variation, predictive value and scoring systems.
• There are two scope filters:
  • Broad - Sensitive search – includes relevant citations but probably less relevant; will retrieve more (default)
  • Narrow - Specific search – will get more precise, relevant citations but less retrieval