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Is Abstract = Full Text?

Is Abstract = Full Text?

3 - Interesting Articles
Scoping Review of Comparisons between Abstracts and Full Reports in Primary Biomedical Research. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 2017 Dec;17(1):181. Are you among those people who decide to cite a paper by reading only its Abstract? If yes, then you need to think again. The possibility is you may miss some important findings which the abstract failed to include from the full text! Some of the reasons why readers almost always rely on the abstract alone are - the full text is in a foreign language, it is just not available anywhere, or it is too expensive to lay one's hands on.…
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Guest post: Dr Priyadarshini Kulkarni, Palliative Care Physician

Guest post: Dr Priyadarshini Kulkarni, Palliative Care Physician

4 - Guest posts
I am a Palliative Care physician. I ventured to do a part time MSc in Palliative Care, with an International University. One element of this program was to write a systematic review on a topic as part of the thesis fulfillment. I had never done one before. And time was really scarce considering my work commitments and learning something new for research purposes. (A palliative care physician mostly sees patients in their terminal stages, and so cannot afford to delay attending to them). I was worried about the literature searching requirement, as I had never done a systematic search at…
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Global Health Library

Global Health Library

2 - Do you know
Global Health Library is an initiative of WHO for global knowledge management. It is an index of scientific and technical literature produced in low- and middle- income countries. The purpose is to increase visibility of health literature that is produced across the globe and enhance sharing and transfer of knowledge. In 2015, the Global Health Library, adopted the name of Global Index Medicus. GIM is an central search platform for a) Five Regional indexes, b) Global indexes of databases like MEDLINE, SciELO and c) The WHO institutional repository.  BIREME,  a specialized center of WHO, maintains this resource in order to ensure its reliability. This index…
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