Medical literature review: Search or perish

Abstract

Literature review is a cascading process of searching, reading, analyzing, and summing up of the materials about a specific topic. However, searching the literature is like searching “a needle in a haystack”, and hence has been called “Cinderella”.1 Therefore, skills and effective pathways of searching the literature are needed to achieve high sensitive and specific results.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.292.3418

How to cite this:Skaik Y. Medical literature review: Search or perish. Pak J Med Sci 2013;29(2):680-681.   doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.292.3418

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