Retrieving Clinical Evidence: A Comparison of PubMed and Google Scholar for Quick Clinical Searches

Salimah Z Shariff   ^{1, 2} , BMath, PhD ;   Shayna AD Bejaimal   ¹ , BMedSc ;   Jessica M Sontrop   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Arthur V Iansavichus   ¹ , MLIS ;   R Brian Haynes   ^{3, 4} , MD, PhD ;   Matthew A Weir   ¹ , MD ;   Amit X Garg   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD, PhD

¹ Kidney Clinical Research Unit, Division of Nephrology, Western University, London, ON, Canada

² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, ON, Canada

³ McMaster University, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Hamilton, ON, Canada

⁴ Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada