About QuickPubMed

QuickPubMed is a search feature developed by the Danish Diabetes Knowledge Center, which makes it easy to search the world's largest database of health science literature, PubMed.

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You can choose from a variety of topics relevant to diabetes. The topics can be combined so that you can focus your search on what you are interested in.

We have put together the combinations of keywords behind each topic. Using QuickPubMed therefore requires no prior knowledge of database searching.

To benefit from using QuickPubMed, you must be able to read, understand and interpret the scientific literature, which is most often written in English. Therefore, the search feature is particularly suitable for people who have e.g. a health science or health professional background and has experience of reading scientific literature.

NOTE! If you plan to do a literature search for e.g. a systematic review, using QuickPubMed will not be enough. Instead, consider getting help from an information specialist.

Behind every topic or limit that can be selected in the search form is a so-called search string. A search string is the combination of keywords and "tags" that you use to find a specific record in PubMed.

We have put together the search strings so that they can work individually or combined with AND or OR. That way, you can put together a longer search string that matches what you want to search for.

The combined search strings are sent to the PubMed database and the result is displayed below the search form.

Under each edition of QuickPubMed, you can read more about the principles behind and an overview of the search strings used.

We are constantly developing and adjusting QuickPubMed. If you think a topic or feature in missing, please contact us.

Unfortunately, we can not promise that all requests for adjustments and new features for QuickPubMed will be met.