Medical Literature - Medical Journal

Medical Journal

These are publications in which the medical community shares information. The common articles are original articles, reviews and case reports .

1. Original articles describe methods, results, discussion and conclusions and a new research that conducted by the authors. Although according to the Evidence based medicine consensus the randomized controlled trials are the gold-standard for medical research, currently, they constitute only a minority of conducted research.
2. Reviews are an overview of one particular topic of clinical interest in order to refresh the readers' memory, to enhance an emergence concept or the summary recent publications that haven't appeared in the textbooks yet. Other type of reviews are the systematic reviews and the meta-analysis in which a specific clinical dilemma is answered by collecting and summarizing all published data regarding this question.
3. Reports of clinical cases of special interest of rare phenomenon or a new clinical method that was employed while managing the disease. However, currently most of the top-ranked medical literature do not published case reports as not being evidence based medicine. Thus data of rare medical situations, in which large randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials can not be conducted, may not be published and data may be lost.

When looking for specific information in any journal one can use the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database. Peer reviewed journals are ranked higher thus are a better source for medical information than non-peer reviewed journals. Examples of journals are:

• The New England Journal of Medicine
• The Lancet
• JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)
• Annals of Internal Medicine
• Nature Medicine
• BMJ (British Medical Journal)
• CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
• Archives of Internal Medicine