• Pak J Med Sci · Apr 2013

    Medical literature review: Search or perish.

    • Younis Skaik.
    • Younis Skaik, Lecturer and Researcher in Immunohaematology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, AL-Azhar University-Gaza, Palestine.
    • Pak J Med Sci. 2013 Apr 1; 29 (2): 680681680-1.

    AbstractLiterature 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.

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