What is PubMed Clinical Queries?
Use Clinical Queries to enable pre-made filters applying to different clinical research areas.
The tool is used to limit search results to specific clinical research areas including:
- Clinical Studies
- COVID-19 articles
- Medical Genetics
Enter your search exactly as you would in the PubMed search box.
Clinical Studies
Once you have entered relevant terms from your research question
Select a Study Category from the dropdown menu.
- Therapy (default choice)
- Filter uses search terms related to clinical trials, controlled trials, random allocation, and theraputic use.
- Etiology
- Filter uses search terms related to cohort studies and risk.
- Diagnosis
- Filter uses search terms related to diagnosis, specificity, or sensitivity.
- Prognosis
- Filter uses search terms related to prognosis, cohort studies, follow-up studies, incidence, and prediction.
- Clinical Prediction Guides
- Filter uses language related to validation, observer variation, predictive value, and scoring systems.
There are two scope filters:
- Broad
- Sensitive search
- Includes relevant citations but probably less relevant; will retrieve more results (default)
- Narrow
- Specific search
- Is more precise, provides relevant citations but less retrieval
For more information, see available documentation on the:
