Literature Search

• PubMed. National Library of Medicine, database to search for biomedical and life sciences literature.

• Cochrane Library. Leading journal and database for systematic reviews in health care.

• For a more extensive list of surgical and critical care references, please see Medical Literature.

References

• Zotero. Free computer program that organizes all your medical literature. Highly recommend. You can create folders and add tags to help index your documents. If you want to sync your documents across devices (phone, tablet, etc), you can purchase a storage subscription. 2 GB costs $20/ year, 6 GB costs $60/ year and $120/ year gives you unlimited data storage. Tools and shortcuts in Zotero:

  • Automatically add articles from any electronic resource (PubMed, journal website, etc).

  • Easily tag and sort documents into categories to help easily locate articles on a particular topic.

  • Search your entire database of documents for any author, title, year of publication, and journal source, and perhaps most usefully- search for any individual words to find a comprehensive list of documents that address a particular topic.

  • There is a note panel on the right side of the document that allows you to type a note while reading the article.

  • Automatically create a note from the text you highlight while reading an article. Alternatively, if you choose to type your own notes, you can also highlight text and add a single highlighted section to the note.

• EndNote. Free application that simplifies citation management. Use Cite While You Write to embed references while writing manuscripts.

Data Analysis

• Covidence. Systematic review management program. It requires a subscription.

• GraphPad QuickCalcs. I do NOT endorse this as the most reliable/ valid/ precise options for doing statistics. HOWEVER, I have used it for simple calculations and it always matches or is incredibly close to what my formally trained statistician reported.

• PubMed. National Library of Medicine, database to search for biomedical and life sciences literature.

• Cochrane Library. Leading journal and database for systematic reviews in health care.

  
  
  
  

Research Manuscript Submission