Where can I look to find articles and references from medical journals?
There are a number of resources available to healthcare providers and patients that allow them to search the medical journals (i.e. literature) to find articles. First, there is the medical library. Many institutions, hospitals, academic medical centers and universities have a library that is dedicated to medical literature. Once you are there, you will need to search within a specific medical database to locate the information that you are looking for. Keep in mind that there are thousands of medical journals, so libraries will not be able to carry all of the journals that you are looking for. One of the most popular medical databases in existence is MEDLINE. This is a database provided and kept by the National Library of Medicine. MEDLINE offers the ability to search by entering keywords according to the topic for which you are looking. For example: “Lymphedema.” MEDLINE allows you to set limits on what you are searching for. You can limit the search to specific dates, articles writt
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