1. Literature search

1.2 Source documents

Searching on Internet

Sources available:

  • General search engines (Google, Yahoo…)
  • Meta-search engines (Copernic)
  • Directories (Evidence-Based Healthcare, CISmef…)
  • Selective applications (SUM-search) that can simultaneous query several sources.

« EBM search filters » (Evidence-Based Medicine)offer predefined search strategies that use qualitative search criteria.

To get the most exhaustive results, it is usually necessary to use one or several fee-based services for full-text searches.