Dr Phong How to use Medline

HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY VIETNAM HEART INSTITUTE MEDline Tips & Tricks PHAN DINH PHONG, MD phong.vtm@gmail.com What is  MEDline ? A biomedical database of National Library of Medicine (USA) What is MEDline ?  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 engines  PubMed is both a database and a Web-based search engine  PubMed contains all of Medline, plus OldMedline (1950-1966) and recently dded entries How to access PubMed/Medline?  Go to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ simply by typing: www.pubmed.com/org Register for easy use Click on Medline Type: 1800:2100[dp] then GO (15/10/2010) Type: 1800:2100[dp] then GO (15/3/2010) Why not google? VS PubMed Google Biomedical haystacks only All haystacks Terms assigned by Human Indexers Machine created Controlled Vocabulary Cluster Analysis Mostly Grain Mostly Chaff Searching with tags Searching with Boolean logic AND / OR / NOT OR HEART FAILURE HYPERTENSION Searching with Boolean logic AND / OR / NOT AND HEART FAILURE AND HYPER -TENSION Searching with Boolean logic AND / OR / NOT NOT NOT CONGENITAL HEART DISEASES HEART FAILURE 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 ??? 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! & ... Web-based search engine  PubMed contains all of Medline, plus OldMedline (1950-1966) and recently dded entries How to access PubMed /Medline?  Go to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ simply... 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...What is  MEDline ? A biomedical database of National Library of Medicine (USA) What is MEDline ?  Bibliographic with Abstracts and Links to Full Text  Comprehensive -