Method
From all of PubMed to the few papers in your brief.
Thousands of papers are indexed every day. This is exactly how we decide which ones reach you.
Four steps, every night
The same process runs for every subscriber and every specialty.
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You choose
Pick up to three specialties, then the topics within each. Add custom topics, like a drug, a procedure or a trial name, and up to five journals you want to follow.
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We search PubMed every night
We pull the newest PubMed records that match your topics and journals. If an abstract isn't online yet, we wait and check again before including the paper.
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We rank what we find
Papers are scored on how closely they match your topics, the strength of the study design and the journal. The best five make your brief.
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You get one email per specialty
Daily, twice a week or weekly. Anything that didn't make the top five waits in your library.
Stronger evidence comes first
Every paper is labeled with its study type, so you know what you're looking at before you read the summary.
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| Kept short |
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Design is one of three ranking factors. A highly relevant laboratory study can still reach your brief, labeled as early-stage science.
What a summary can't tell you
Summaries are written from abstracts, not full texts. When an abstract leaves out a result, the summary says so rather than guessing.
BriefMD is for keeping up with the literature, not for making clinical decisions. Read the source before a paper changes how you practice.
See it on your own topics.
Pick a specialty and topics after you subscribe. It takes about a minute.