SML PubMedQuiz
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PubMed, a bibliographic database dating back to 1950, indexes:
around 5000 international journals of medicine & medical sciences.
around 1000 international journals of medicine & medical sciences.
around 15000 international journals of medicine & medical sciences.
none of the above.
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PubMed now also contains:
around 90 e-books that are free to everyone.
links to free genetics databases.
links to free chemistry databases.
all of the above.
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The best way to search PubMed for
effect of television on violence
is by searching:
television
OR
violence
(
television
OR
tv
) AND
violence
television
AND tv AND
violence
television
AND
violence
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Typing
antibiotics
at the PubMed search box, then clicking Go, retrieves:
articles talking about antibiotics or containing the text-word antibiotics in the indexed part of the article (title, abstract, subject…)
articles talking about any antibiotic (such as penicillins, cephalosporins, tetracyclines etc….) even if they do not contain the word antibiotics in the indexed part of the article (title, abstract, subject…)
all of the above
none of the above
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You searched PubMed and found an important article, but going through the links it does not open the full-text.
This means that AUB does not subscribe to this journal.
Your next step should be to search "Journal Finder" to see if AUB subscribes to this journal.
You should disregard this article.
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PubMed has a link where patients find reliable and up-to-date health information that is specifically written for patients or their families:
PubMed search box.
Clinical Queries.
Clinical Alerts.
Consumer Health.
MeSH Database.
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The best way to search for
misdiagnosis of brucellosis
is:
misdiagnosis of brucellosis
misdiagnosis
AND
brucellosis
misdiagnosis
OR
brucellosis
diagnostic errors brucellosis
diagnostic errors
OR
brucellosis
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The best way to search for EBM documents through PubMed is by searching:
PubMed search box.
Clinical Queries.
Clinical Alerts.
Consumer Health.
MeSH Database.
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To set up e-mail alerts for new content (you are interested in a specific topic, and you want PubMed to directly send you an e-mail whenever new content about your topic is added), you have to use:
Save Search and register My NCBI.
This cannot be done on PubMed.
You have to pay for this service.
The Library has to pay for this service so you can use it.
