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How to use Advanced search in PubMed for Literature Review?
Mohamad Ali Salloum, PharmD • January 30, 2022
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Writing your Literature Review will finish faster using this method!
When a student, a professor, or any other person doing research needs to conduct a study, one of the first steps to do is literature review.
This step is important because it:
1) Allows study team to observe what previous researchers demonstrated about their subject.
2) Gives study team a better view of the problem that needs to be solved so that they can formulate a better hypothesis.
Searching for articles is made easy nowadays using the search engines like Google Scholar and PubMed .
In the below video I will show you how to use the advanced search in PubMed so you can find and organize your articles in a professional and clean excel data sheet.
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