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 ===== Selecting Databases for Your Search =====
-Selecting several databases ensures that your search is comprehensive. A well-cited guide on how to conduct a systematic review of medical research suggests, at a minimum, a combination of Embase, MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Google Scholar.<sup>1</sup> Cochrane and Scopus are also common databases for biomedical systematic reviews.
+Selecting several databases ensures that your search is comprehensive. A well-cited guide on how to conduct a systematic review of medical research suggests, at a minimum, a combination of PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Google Scholar.<sup>1</sup> Cochrane and Scopus are also common databases for biomedical systematic reviews.
    * [[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/|PubMed]], which is free, is the most common database to use to search for biomedical and life sciences literature. PubMed will search for relevant words in the title and abstract but not in the full text. PubMed includes citations indexed in Medline, uploaded by journals, and archived in PubMed Central. The distinctions between PubMed, Medline, and PubMed Central are explained [[https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/difference.html|here]].

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