Clinicalkey User Guide: An In-Depth Guide To
Clinicalkey User Guide: An In-Depth Guide To
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2 Searching on ClinicalKey....................................................................................................... 3
2.1 Searching With AutoSuggest....................................................................................4
2.2 Navigating the Search Results Page....................................................................... 5
2.3 Using Filters to Refine Search Results...................................................................6
2.4 Viewing Search Results................................................................................................ 7
2.5 Saving and Retrieving Search Results.................................................................... 8
5 Browsing in ClinicalKey........................................................................................................17
5.1 Browsing Journals.........................................................................................................18
5.2 Browsing Books............................................................................................................ 19
5.3 Browsing Multimedia................................................................................................. 20
6 Appendix....................................................................................................................................21
6.1 Account Maintenance..................................................................................................21
6.2 Contacting Customer Support................................................................................22
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Table of Contents
1 Overview
ClinicalKey is a clinical insight engine that addresses key clinical research requirements of
physicians, medical librarians, CMO/CMIOs, and healthcare professionals. It is comprehensive,
trustworthy, and fast.
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omprehensive: ClinicalKey draws answers from the largest collection of clinical resources,
covering every medical and surgical specialty. ClinicalKey also indexes more than 22 million
MEDLINE abstracts, which are retrieved each day from the National Library of Medicine.
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rusted: The authoritative medical and surgical content comes from Elsevier’s vast online
medical portfolio.
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ast: Smart Content, powered by Elsevier Merged Medical Taxonomy (EMMeT), enables fast
discovery of answers that are more relevant than those provided by conventional clinical
search engines, thereby reducing search time.
ote: If you have ClinicalKey access through your institution, you must be connected to the
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network in order to login.
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1.4 Logging Out of ClinicalKey
ClinicalKey automatically logs you out after 30 minutes of inactivity. You can also logout manually.
To logout of ClinicalKey:
In the upper right corner of the Home Page, click Logout.
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1.6 Navigating the ClinicalKey Home Page
After you login to ClinicalKey, you are at the Home Page (see Figure 1). From the Home Page and all
ClinicalKey screens, you can search and browse. You can also use the My ClinicalKey drop-down list to
access your Saved Searches, Reading List, Presentation Maker, and My Account. You can return to the
Home Page from any ClinicalKey screen.
My ClinicalKey:
From the drop-down menu, you can access the
Browse menu following features: Logout
Saved Searches
Reading List
Presentation Manager
My Account
Search Bar
and button
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lick the icon in the upper left-hand corner of any screen.
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2 Searching on ClinicalKey
It all starts with a simple search. The ClinicalKey Search Bar is always available, so you can easily search
for content at any time. To help narrow down your search results, you can use full or partial words,
phrases, and acronyms; see Table 1 for descriptions and examples of each. You can further refine your
search results using filters (see Using Filters to Refine Search Results).
Table 1. Ways
Search using to Search When
Full or partial words and phrases You know or have an idea of what you are searching for, such as migraines.
You know the acronym and do not want to enter the full term.
Acronyms Example: Enter CHF and ClinicalKey displays results for congestive
heart failure.
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2.1 Searching With AutoSuggest
The Search Bar is always available, so you can search from any ClinicalKey screen.
To search ClinicalKey using AutoSuggest:
1. In the Search Bar, enter the first few letters of your search word/words, or use a search
method in Table 1.
As you enter your search criteria, ClinicalKey’s AutoSuggest feature automatically displays
a list of relevant search terms (see Figure 2).
As you keep entering criteria, AutoSuggest continually refines the list of search terms.
Search Search
term button
Autosuggest
list
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2.2 Navigating the Search Results Page
Page icons: Select
number of items to
display on each page Time: Click to select Sort by: Click to sort
Click to return and scroll through publication time frame by Relevance or Date
to Home Page the pages
Arrow icon:
To open tabs
Outline
Content:
Selected
content type
changes color
Tip: E
ven if you make a typo in the Search Bar, when you press Enter, ClinicalKey predicts
what you are searching for and suggests possible matches.
Example:
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2.3 Using Filters to Refine Search Results
After you perform a search, on the left panel of the Search Results Page you can refine your search
results by study type, specialty and content type. The Time arrow on the toolbar lets you refine your
results by publication time. To remove filters and display a complete listing, you can select the All option
available for each filter.
To refine your search results by study type:
1. In the Study Type list click one or more boxes next to the studies in which you are interested.
he boxes of the selected study types change color. The center panel displays only
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the selected study type.
ClinicalKey includes 4 types of study:
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To refine your search results by publication time frame:
1. Click the Time arrow on the toolbar (see Figure 3).
2. From the drop-down menu, select the publication time frame in which you are interested.
The center panel displays only content published in that time frame.
linicalKey searches can be filtered to include material published during the last 6 months,
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last 12 months, last 18 months, last 2 years, or last 5 years.
To remove a filter:
Click the All option for the filter list.
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To preview an image:
1. From the Search Results Page middle panel, click the image to the left of a title.
An Image Preview screen opens with links to the image, description, and citations
(see Figure 4).
2. Click the x in the upper right corner of the Image Preview screen to close the screen.
Links:
Image
Description
Citation
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The Save Search box opens.
Name box
Tip:
If you have filters applied to
your search, it will save your
search term along with those
filters.
Save
2. In the Name box, accept or change the name of the search you are saving.
3. Click Save.
In the upper left corner a pop-up message flashes that your search is saved.
The Saved Searches button indicates the number of searches you saved.
To retrieve your saved search results:
1. Click the Saved Searches button in the upper left corner.
A drop-down list of saved searches opens.
Saved Searches
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To remove saved searches:
1. Click My ClinicalKey on the right of the menu bar.
From the drop-down list, select Saved Searches (see Figure 5).
2. Click a search you want to remove.
3. In the top left bar, click Remove From List.
4. In the pop-up confirm box, click Yes.
ClinicalKey removes the saved search.
5. Click the x in the upper right corner to close the Manage Saved Searches box.
Close Manage
Saved Searches
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3.2 Navigating the Content Reader
Briefly, you can use the panels as follows (see Figure 6):
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eft panel to view content outlines, which depend upon the type of content selected.
For example, the panel can display a table of contents for an entire book or one chapter.
It can display a list of all articles in a journal or an outline of one article. For some content,
such as First Consult, it displays a topic list you can expand or collapse.
Center panel to read, share, save, or print the content
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ight panel to access additional information and navigation tools for content in the center panel
(e.g.: references, figures, related videos).
Print icon Email icon PDF download icon Continuing medical education icon
Back to Search
Results
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To read material on the Content Reader:
1. From the left panel, click a topic to jump to that point in the center panel content.
Note: If the left panel does not have an outline, you can use the scroll bar in the center panel
to move through the material.
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rom the right panel, review information associated to the content in the center panel, such
as references, citations, images, and tables.
3. Click the “<< ” or “ >> ” icons at the top of the right and left panels to minimize the panels.
hen viewing the content reader after conducting a search you can click Back to Search Results
4. W
to close the Content Reader and return to the Search Results Page.
Arrows to collapse
or expand the left Arrows to collapse
panel or expand the right
panel
Figure 7. Content Reader. Both the left and right panels are expanded.
Reading
List + sign
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To access articles from the Reading List:
1. Click the Reading List button.
The Reading List opens (see Figure 9).
Tip: You can also access the Reading List from the My ClinicalKey drop-down list.
2. Click the title of the article you want to read.
The article opens in the Content Reader. See Navigating the Content Reader.
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3.5 Printing, Downloading, and Emailing Content From ClinicalKey
You can print any content on ClinicalKey, excluding medical textbooks, and download any material
that has a PDF icon to the right of its name in the center panel.
You may print or download content from the site for your own personal, noncommercial use,
provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. You may not engage in
systematic retrieval of content from the site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a
collection, compilation, database, or directory without prior written permission from Elsevier.
To print content from the Content Reader:
1. Display the content you want to print in the Content Reader center panel (see Figure 6).
Tip: A
lways use the ClinicalKey print icon to print your content. Other methods of printing
can produce blank pages.
The Print Preview screen opens.
2. On the left, select printing options, such as range of pages and number of copies.
3. Click Print.
To download PDF content from the Content Reader:
To download a PDF there must be a PDF icon to the right of the title in the Search Results Page
center panel.
1. From the Search Results Page, click the title of the PDF content you want to download.
The content opens in the Content Reader (see Figure 6).
Click the PDF icon to download the content
ClinicalKey saves the PDF in your Documents Downloads folder.
Tip: Y
ou can download content directly from the Search Results Page by clicking the PDF icon
next to a title (see Figure 3).
To email content from ClinicalKey:
1. Display the content you want to email in the Content Reader center panel (see Figure 6).
Click the email icon. An Email Citations window opens (see Figure 10).
2. Enter the recipient’s email address, subject, your email address, and an optional message.
ClinicalKey automatically attaches the selected content to the email.
3. Click Send.
A message indicates your email was sent successfully.
4. Click the x in the upper right of the box to close it.
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ecipient must have
ClinicalKey to view
full content.
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3.6 Citations
You need to cite all articles and books from ClinicalKey according to the American Medical
Association Manual of Style, 10th Edition (http://www.amamanualofstyle.com).
In citations for drug monographs, images, and patient education materials, include the copyright
holder, the title of the material, a reference to ClinicalKey with the appropriate website address, and
the date you viewed the material.
In citations for material original to First Consult, include the title of the material, the type of article,
a reference to ClinicalKey with the appropriate website address, and the date you posted and
viewed the material.
Add to Presentation
Figure 11. Image Display Window.
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To view images in the Presentation Maker:
1. Click the Presentation button.
The Presentation Maker opens (see Figure 12).
Tip: You can also access the Presentation Maker from the My ClinicalKey drop-down list.
2. View the images.
3. Click the x in the upper right corner to close the Presentation Maker.
To remove images from the Presentation Maker:
1. Click the Presentation button.
The Presentation Maker opens.
Tip: You can also access the Presentation Maker from the My ClinicalKey drop-down list.
2. Click the image you want to remove.
3. Click the Remove From List button.
4. In the pop-up confirm box, click Yes.
5. Click the x in the upper right corner to close the Presentation Maker.
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4.2 Creating a Presentation in PowerPoint
You can share images from ClinicalKey by creating a PowerPoint presentation with them.
To create a PowerPoint presentation with ClinicalKey images:
dd all the images you want for your presentation to the ClinicalKey Presentation Maker. See
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Using the Presentation Maker.
2. Open the Presentation Maker.
3. Click the Export to PowerPoint button.
ClinicalKey downloads the PowerPoint.
4. Click the x in the upper right corner to close the Presentation Maker.
5. View your PowerPoint presentation.
4.3 Citations
The Presentation Maker will automatically insert citations.
4.4 Permissions
Authorized users of ClinicalKey have permission to use content from the site in presentations for
noncommercial use. You must keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.
5 Browsing in ClinicalKey
Rather than searching for specific content, you can browse through ClinicalKey’s extensive
collection of journals, books, practice guidelines, patient education, drug information, and
multimedia. The ClinicalKey browse menus are always available. This section describes how to
browse journals, books, images, and videos.
Menu bar
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5.1 Browsing Journals
To browse journal articles:
1. Click Journals on the Browse menu.
The Journals browse screen opens (see Figure 13):
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he left panel displays a search box, alphabet filters, and a list of specialties and
the number of journals available in each. The Show More link will display additional
specialties.
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he center panel displays a complete list of journals in ClinicalKey, in alphabetical order
by name.
Search box
Alphabet A to Z
Specialties
2. To narrow down the list of journals, you can do the following in the left panel:
In the search box, type search words.
Click an alphabet letter, A to Z, to see journals whose names begin with that letter.
lick the Show More link to display additional specialties.
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Tip: Click alphabet All and specialty All to display a complete list of journals.
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3. In the center panel, click a journal title.
he left panel displays the journal by year and volume number and issues within each volume.
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The center panel displays an annotated list of articles for the selected issue (see Figure 14).
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2. To narrow down the list of books, you can do the following in the left panel:
In the Search box, type search words.
Click an alphabet letter, A to Z, to see books whose names begin with that letter.
Click boxes next to specialties. Click the Show More link to display additional specialties.
Tip: Click alphabet All and specialty All to display a complete list of books.
3. In the center panel, click a book title.
The center panel displays a list of chapters and brief summaries.
4. Click a chapter title.
The left panel displays an outline of the chapter.
The center panel displays the chapter content.
The right panel displays tabs with additional information.
5. Scroll through the chapter by clicking topics in the left panel or using the scroll bar.
Image icon
Video icon
Video link
2. To narrow down the list of images and videos, you can do the following in the left panel:
Click boxes next to specialties within the Show More link.
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elect either images or videos media type.
Tip: Click All for specialty and media type to display a complete list of multimedia.
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3. In the center panel, click an image icon.
An Image Preview screen opens with links to the image, description, and citations (see Figure 4).
4. In the center panel, point to a video icon and click the link under the icon.
The video screen opens where you can run the video.
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6.2 Contacting Customer Support
A link to customer support appears at the bottom left of every ClinicalKey screen. Please note that
customer service hours vary by country.
To contact customer support:
Click Contact Us at the bottom of the screen.
The Contact Us screen opens with information on how to contact customer support and the
hours of service.
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