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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    Mohamad-Ali Salloum is a Pharmacist and science writer. He loves simplifying science to the general public and healthcare students through words and illustrations. When he's not working, you can usually find him in the gym, reading a book, or learning a new skill.

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