Neurosurgery

Welcome to the research guide for Neurosurgery. In it you'll find resources and information that will help you with your patient care and research. Click on the tabs on this page to uncover detailed lists of resources to help answer your questions.  Each tab is comprised of the best sources for finding journal articles, drug information, and point of care resources.

If you've been searching and can't find what you're looking for, feel free to give me a call! I can:

• Help with literature searches and searches for systematic reviews
• Provide one-on-one advice about your research topic
• Teach you advanced techniques for database searching
• Assist you with setting up auto alerts for selected search strategies/TOC updates
• Orient you to an array of library resources available through UM
• Teach you about citation management tools, such as EndNote which can save you time when formatting your citations and bibliographies

Stanford Neurosurgery provides 3D interactive models of the anatomy of the

• skull base through endoscopic endonasal approach
• skull base with landmarks of principal vascular and nervous structures

Find information on COVID-19 quickly using these resources. The Front Door searches high quality meta-analyses, literature syntheses, & clinical guidelines from multiple sources in one place.

To search in PubMed, see the links below. To find results in more resources, including preprints, see this article: Farhad Shokraneh, Rapid Response:Keeping Up with Studies on COVID-19: Systematic Search Strategies and Resources. BMJ 2020;368:m1199. You can then modify the searches to make them more focused on the precise question that you're asking.

Please note: the links below go to public PubMed, not to PubMed @ UM.

For search strategies for OVID Medline, see the link below.

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