Medical literature review: Search or perish

Pak J Med Sci. 2013 Apr;29(2):680-1. doi: 10.12669/pjms.292.3418.

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.

Keywords: Literature search.