The subject matter that I referenced was to try and find if there was a standard of care for the treatment of croup with oral steroids.
PubMed was a fantastic source full of evidenced-based guidelines and research that had been completed detailing dexamethasone versus prednisone. Understanding how to tailor searches takes time and practice, but once accomplished leads to great rewards of knowledge.
I used National Guideline Clearinghouse, but was unable to locate any guidelines on croup. I found this website somewhat frustrating as I tried to modify my search for better results.
Finally, Google (scholar) was able to provide me with many of the same articles available in PubMed, however when I tried to access the full copies of the articles, it required me to be a member of a website or pay a subscription.
So, in conclusion, I found PubMed to be the most worthwhile in terms of its content, searching capabilities, and access to full copies of the articles.
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