Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: MEDLINE Searches Made Easy
Certified Legal Nurse Consultants know the utility of searching MEDLINE and other wonderful National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases when doing research for your legal nurse consulting work product. In case you’ve gotten rusty, this week’s Tuesday Tech Tip is a quick review on searching MEDLINE through PubMed.
Seasoned CLNC® consultants all know that the fastest way to start their research is with PubMed. It’s easy to use and reaches out to resources beyond the NLM and it includes citations that haven’t yet been indexed by MEDLINE. It also includes OLDMEDLINE which, my CLNC® amigos, is not the LARGE PRINT VERSION but are citations from pre-1966. The best part is the Tech Tip Tom-approved PubMed tutorials to help you sharpen your research skills.
As Sherlock Holmes said, “Watson, the game is afoot!” so is the research, get to it!
8 thoughts on “Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: MEDLINE Searches Made Easy”
Tom, your research tips with this latest ‘tech tip email’ are great and appreciated! This information provides a myriad of sources to access when researching any health/medical topic.
This is a really helpful site. As a new soon to be Certified Legal Nurse Consultant this is going to be so very helpful to me as a new and upcoming graduate of the CLNC® Certification Program. Today I am going to be at our local court house studying the lawyers in action. It also may be an excellent time for marketing. Thank you Tom for all you and Vickie have done in this course to help those of us working to better ourselves in the nursing field.
Thanks, Tom. I hope you post more about research, please! Now that I work from home I don’t have access to my hospital’s database or library, so I am finding it to be more of a challenge locating authoritative information, especially without having to pay for an article or review that I am not even sure will help me!
Tom,
Your tips are very informative and appreciated. I was in the market for a new laptop and it was great to read your post about waiting until Windows 8 is released.
As a newly graduated CLNC® Consultant, I was hoping you might be willing to post a listing of the top ten web sites you access for research or obtaining experts so I am not trying to reinvent the wheel. Thanks again for sharing your technical knowledge and insight with us.
Mark,
Thank you for the compliment. Here are my top 4 sites for starting research:
1) “PubMed” for Journals
2) “The Cochrane Collaboration” for Research
3) The NACLNC® Association for texts, websites and locating expert witnesses through the CLNC® association.
4) Finally – “Health Grades” for Reviews of Physicians
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Keep on Techin’,
Tom, your research tips with this latest ‘tech tip email’ are great and appreciated! This information provides a myriad of sources to access when researching any health/medical topic.
Colette
THANKS, TOM!
This is a really helpful site. As a new soon to be Certified Legal Nurse Consultant this is going to be so very helpful to me as a new and upcoming graduate of the CLNC® Certification Program. Today I am going to be at our local court house studying the lawyers in action. It also may be an excellent time for marketing. Thank you Tom for all you and Vickie have done in this course to help those of us working to better ourselves in the nursing field.
Thanks, Tom. All your tips are great for the beginning CLNC® consultant or soon to be CLNC® consultant. Thanks again.
Thanks, Tom. I hope you post more about research, please! Now that I work from home I don’t have access to my hospital’s database or library, so I am finding it to be more of a challenge locating authoritative information, especially without having to pay for an article or review that I am not even sure will help me!
Sascha, all research charges can be expensed to the attorney, so be sure to include research expenses in your contract.
Tom,
Your tips are very informative and appreciated. I was in the market for a new laptop and it was great to read your post about waiting until Windows 8 is released.
As a newly graduated CLNC® Consultant, I was hoping you might be willing to post a listing of the top ten web sites you access for research or obtaining experts so I am not trying to reinvent the wheel. Thanks again for sharing your technical knowledge and insight with us.
Mark,
Thank you for the compliment. Here are my top 4 sites for starting research:
1) “PubMed” for Journals
2) “The Cochrane Collaboration” for Research
3) The NACLNC® Association for texts, websites and locating expert witnesses through the CLNC® association.
4) Finally – “Health Grades” for Reviews of Physicians
Best – Tom