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ABSTRACT
This column explains ways to optimize the PubMed search features: Computed Author Sort, PubMed Identifier, PubMed Phrase Index, and proximity search. Two case studies show how to find every citation in PubMed, and how to retrieve comprehensive citations to systematic reviews. The article concludes with why PubMed ignores some search terms.
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Developed resources reported in this document are supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) under cooperative agreement number UG4LM013732 with the University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of NIH.