Medical literature
Medical literature is the scientific literature of medicine: articles in journals and texts in books devoted to the field of medicine. Many references to the medical literature include the health care literature generally, including that of dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and the allied health professions.
Contemporary and historic views regarding diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of medical conditions have been documented for thousands of years. The
History
Throughout history, people have written about diseases, how
Following
Medical journal
These are publications in which the medical community shares information. The common articles are original articles, reviews and case reports.
- Original articles describe randomized controlled trialsare the gold-standard for medical research, currently, they constitute only a minority of conducted research.
- Reviews are an overview of one particular topic of systematic reviews and the meta-analysisin which a specific clinical dilemma is answered by collecting and summarizing all published data regarding this question.
- Case reports are descriptions of clinical cases of rare phenomenon or a new clinical method. Case reports may be of value in assessing unusual medical conditions that cannot be studied in clinical trials.[4] Currently, most of the top-ranked medical journals do not publish case reports because of space constraints or a preference for larger, more definitive studies.
Instances
When looking for specific information in any journal one can use the
are ranked higher thus are a better source for medical information than non-peer reviewed journals.Medical textbooks
A medical manual is
After
- Cecil Textbook of Medicine[5]
- Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine[6]
- The Oxford Textbook of Medicine[7]
- The Principles and Practice of Medicine
- The Textbook of Pain
Harrison's Principal of Internal Medicine is widely considered the most read textbook of medicine ever. It was able to eclipse Cecil's by changing the organization. Instead of organizing by disease,
Medical journalism
Health-related information is often disseminated to the public via mainstream media outlets; these reports influence doctors, the general public, and the government. According to one study of 500 US health news stories, between 62 and 77% failed to adequately address costs, harms, benefits, the quality of the evidence, and the existence of other options.
Internet
Most prominent journals and textbooks are currently available
and MDLinx offer aggregated digests of new articles from prominent medical journals.See also
References
- ^ "Medicine in Ancient and Medieval Times". College of St. Cosmas.
- ^ Watrall, Ethan. "Asclepion, a World Wide Web page devoted to the study of ancient medicine".
- ^ Watrall, Ethan. "Medicine in Ancient Egypt".
- PMID 21569508.
- ^ "Cecil Textbook of Medicine". Archived from the original on 2010-06-16. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
- ^ Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine Archived 2006-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Oxford Textbook of Medicine". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21.
- ^ "Tinsley Randolph Harrison - The founding editor of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine". Archived from the original on 2018-04-09. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
- ^ "Lens :: A New Way of Looking at Science -- Eugene Braunwald: Maestro Of American Cardiology". Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
- PMID 18507496.
- PMID 19118299.
- PMID 18507502.
Further reading
- Podolsky, S. H.; Greene, J. A.; Jones, D. S. (2012). "The Evolving Roles of the Medical Journal". New England Journal of Medicine. 366 (16): 1457–1461. S2CID 205108266.