Locating evidence using medical databases (e.g. PubMed, MEDLINE) has several advantages compared to using other search engines. Which of the following answers is not true about medical databases?

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Locating evidence using medical databases (e.g. PubMed, MEDLINE) has several advantages compared to using other search engines. Which of the following answers is  not true  about medical databases?

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Medical databases contain peer-reviewed evidence and are therefore trustworthy sources of accurate, high quality information

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Many medical databases provide a comprehensive catalogue of articles (for example, MEDLINE and PubMed contain >20 million resources).

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Search strategies can usually be built (for example, using Boolean operators and wildcards) in medical databases to find articles that answer a specific research question.

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Medical databases often have limiting fields that allow searches to be restricted (for example, by date range, trial type, humans, title/abstract)

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