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Resources demonstrated and suggested in Library class.

Literature Review Resources

Asking an Answerable Question

Break down your question into separate ideas or concepts.

Suggestions

who - what - when - where - why - how

Example:

Are there any health disparities in access to lung cancer screening between different ethnic groups in California?

Who?  Potential lung cancer patients

  • Also who? minority (general) other terms - ethnic - racial (could even use specific such as Chicano OR Chicana)

What? Health disparities - inequalities

What? Lung cancer screening

Where? California

Searching PubMed

PubMed (see link below) is the major biomedical database from the National Library of Medicine, and anyone can use if free. But go through our SDSU Library link so you can easily get to our journal subscriptions.

Just enter in the search terms you've decided on, and search.

 

Use Advanced to see your search History and combine sets.

 

 

Check to the right of the article title in abstract view to see if we have the article.