Medline: A Guide to Effective Searching / Edition 1
by Brian S. Katcher
This concise and clearly written book will make your MEDLINE searches more productive. Any health professional will benefit from reading this concise and clearly-written book, which explains the basics of formulating searches, shows how to put the main indexing elements in MEDLINE to best use, illustrates the importance of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH),
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This concise and clearly written book will make your MEDLINE searches more productive. Any health professional will benefit from reading this concise and clearly-written book, which explains the basics of formulating searches, shows how to put the main indexing elements in MEDLINE to best use, illustrates the importance of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), provides guidance on framing questions, and backs everything up with practical examples. Includes a glossary of all MeSH used in the book and two appendices.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780967344508
- Publisher:
- Ashbury Press
- Publication date:
- 09/01/1999
- Pages:
- 149
- Product dimensions:
- 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Table of Contents
| Introduction |
1 |
|
| Chapter 1 | Origins of MEDLINE and Why It Works the Way It Does |
3 |
| Chapter 2 | Searching in MEDLINE |
15 |
| Chapter 3 | Medical Subject Headings(MeSH) |
39 |
| Chapter 4 | Publication Types and Other Limiting Strategies |
63 |
| Chapter 5 | Framing Questions and Other Practical Tips |
77 |
| Appendix A | MEDLINE Interfaces and Related
Resources on the World Wide Web |
87 |
| Appendix B | Journals in the Abridged Index Medicus(AIM) |
95 |
| Glossary of Medical Subject Headings(MeSH) used in This Book |
105 |
|
| Index |
131 |
|
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