Dr Phong How to use Medline

 Medical Subject Headings  An alphabetical list of medical terms  MESH makes efficient searching easy... Your typed-in subject term will be “mapped” to a MESH term Click here for

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 Bibliographic with Abstracts and Links to Full Text

 Comprehensive - Covers all Bio-Medical and

Clinical topics

 5,164 Journals Indexed

 20 241 110 Citations (as of 15 October 2010, 6:00)

 International – Indexes journals in 37 Languages

 Very Current – Updated Daily Tuesdays through Saturdays

 Open to All – Free from NLM, available free on the Internet since the mid-1990s

What’s the differences between Medline and ?

 Medline is a database which is searched by using many different public and commercial search

How to access PubMed/Medline?

 Go to

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

simply by typing:

www.pubmed.com/org

Click on

Medline

Register for easy use

Type: 1800:2100[dp]

then GO

(15/10/2010)

Type: 1800:2100[dp]

then GO

(15/3/2010)

Why not google?

PubMed Google

Biomedical haystacks only All haystacks

Terms assigned by Human

Indexers

Machine created Controlled Vocabulary Cluster Analysis

Mostly Grain Mostly Chaff

VS

Medline is HUGE !

The number of articles found may

be enormous!

LIMIT function

 The powerful LIMIT function

enables you to limit your search

to all of the categories: author, journal, dates

 Limit to REVIEW articles

Click here to LIMIT

yourself

 Medical Subject Headings

 An alphabetical list of medical

terms

 MESH makes efficient searching

easy

Clinical question: Can Calcium Antagonist Lacidipine

slow down progression of atherosclerosis ?

Your typed-in subject term

will be “mapped” to a

MESH term

Click here

for MESH

Your typed-in subject term

will be “mapped” to a

MESH term

Click here

for MESH

Choose one or more subheadings

or none if so preferred

Searching with tags

 [au] – author, e.g., Miller RA [au] or miller ra [au]

 [dp] - date published, e.g., 1998 [dp] or 1998/11/06

 [la] – language, e.g., eng [la] (to only find articles in English)

 [pmid] - PubMed ID, e.g., 15094092 [pmid] (to find the PubMed article with ID 15094092)

 [pt] - publication type, e.g., review [pt] (to only see

review articles)

 [ta] - journal title, e.g., rejuvenation res [ta] (all articles

in the journal Rejuvenation Research)

 [ti] - title words, e.g., endothelial [ti] (all articles with

"endothelial" in the title)

 [vi] – volume, e.g., 101 [vol] (for volume number 101)

 …

Searching with tags

AND / OR / NOT

OR

HEART FAILURE HYPERTENSION

Searching with Boolean logic

HEARTFAILURE

HYPER-TENSIONAND

AND / OR / NOT

Searching with Boolean logic

HEART FAILURE

NOT CONGENITAL

HEART DISEASES

AND / OR / NOT

Searching with Boolean logic

Quick search

About 35% of the Medline database

references provide full text

About 65% of the Medline database references provide abstracts only

About 65% of the Medline database

references provide abstracts only

What shall we do ???

within

You can get it

on the internet

Click on HINARI icon to get free

full text

Click on HINARI icon to get free

full text

Many thanks!

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