Guides @ UF: Surgery Resources: Searching the Literature

Listed below are a few databases that might be useful when beginning your information search. For a more complete list, please see our page of Library Databases.

Searching the Literature for Research

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Embase
Embase indexes some of the same biomedical literature as PubMed, but also 6,000 unique journals. Embase is particularly useful for pharmaceutical or medical device searches.
Scopus
Comprehensive, curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines.
Web of Science
The Web of Science® (formerly Web of Knowledge) is today's premier research platform, helping you quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Evidence-Based Practice

UpToDate
UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource which clinicians consult when making point-of-care decisions. An editorial team condenses the most recent medical information into evidence-based recommendations to improve patient care and quality.
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MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series
MICROMEDEX is an excellent source of drug indication, dosage, drug interaction and side effect information, as well as poison control information. It covers all FDA approved medications as well as a database of alternative medicines.
AccessMedicine
AccessMedicine offers instant access to videos, self-assessment, an image library and leading medical textbooks that facilitate decision-making at the point-of-care to ensure the best patient outcome.

Systematic Review Assistance

Your liaison librarian can help answer questions about systematic review searches and other resources available at UF. More information is also available in our Systematic Review Guide.

Covidence
Users must sign up with UF email account. Covidence is a web-based software platform that streamlines the production of systematic reviews, including Cochrane Reviews. The key steps in systematic reviews supported by Covidence are Citation screening, Full text review, Risk of Bias assessment, Extraction of study characteristics and outcomes, and Export of data and references into citation management programs.

Key Databases

MEDLINE (PubMed)
For search methodology, note the database as PubMed/MEDLINE as explanation of where you did your MEDLINE search
Embase
Embase addresses database bias, as it indexes several journals not indexed in MEDLINE, and includes conference proceedings, which address publication bias
Web of Science
Web of Science also includes conference proceedings, which address publication bias. This can also be useful for citation tracking if you decide to snowball your relevant results.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library includes clinical trials, which address publication bias.
Scopus
Scopus and Embase are both Elsevier products, so including this is more about addressing database bias (by using a different search interface for the same pool of literature) than finding unique resources. This can also be useful for citation tracking if you decide to snowball your relevant results.

UF Integrated Data Repository

UF Integrated Data Repository
Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) at UF Health allows you to query an IRBapproved dataset through an Internet browser on your computer and answer count-based questions about UF Health patients. With very few exceptions, the data available for use in i2b2 are drawn from the Epic electronic health record system. Each month, additional clinical data elements and patients are added to the i2b2 database. To query i2b2, an investigator does not need UF Health Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval.

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