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PubMed Clinical Queries

PubMed provides a set of helpful tools for locating evidence-based research that are called Clinical Queries. These are fairly complicated search strategies which you can easily apply to a simple subject searches.

Clinical queries allow you to search on the nature of the clinical research question, in order to help narrow your search. You can search by etiology, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, and clinical prediction guides. You are also able to choose whether you want your search to be narrowly focused or broad.