PubMed Medical Literature Search

Search over 36 million biomedical citations from PubMed and PubMed Central using the NCBI E-utilities API. This skill enables AI agents to perform advanced literature searches with boolean operators, MeSH term expansion, author and journal filtering, date range restrictions, and direct full-text access links -- bringing the power of systematic literature review directly into clinical and research AI workflows.

Quick Install

npx skills add Open-Medica/open-medical-skills --skill pubmed-literature-search

What It Does

• Advanced boolean search across PubMed's entire 36M+ citation database using AND, OR, NOT operators with field-specific qualifiers (title, abstract, author, journal, MeSH)
• MeSH term integration for standardized medical vocabulary searches, including automatic term explosion to capture narrower descriptors in the MeSH hierarchy
• Citation metadata retrieval including authors, journal, publication date, DOI, PubMed ID, abstract text, MeSH headings, and publication type
• Full-text access links via PubMed Central (PMC) when articles are available open-access, with fallback to DOI resolver links
• Date-range and filter support to restrict results by publication year, article type (RCT, meta-analysis, review, case report), language, and species (human/animal)

Clinical Use Cases