Top reliable databases in medical sciences: A practical guide

Donya Sadeghi

Donya Sadeghi Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Keywords: Medical Databases, Evidence-Based Medicine, Information Retrieval, Pubmed, Cochrane, Medical Research, Clinical Decision-Making

Abstract

Searching for scientific resources in medical sciences is an important step in finding available information in the field of study, work or research. Although students/physicians/researchers/etc. are studying, working or starting a project to discover a new topic, they still need to search for related texts to improve the scientific level, find new treatment options or develop research processes. Scientific information in the field of medical sciences can be searched in the form of articles, reports, books and documents. On the other hand, the most relevant information may be scattered and impossible to search in each of them; hence, this paper provides the audience with a list of the top reliable databases for searching scientific resources in medical sciences for ease of access.

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