What is MEDLINE®?
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It is the U. S. National Library of Medicine’s® most comprehensive and authoritative biomedical database in the world covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences
Contains over 15 million citations dating back to 1950
Records in MEDLINE have been assigned “Medical Subject Headings” (MeSH) as the authority list of controlled vocabulary terms to assist users in their searches
Indexes journal citations and abstracts from 5,000+ biomedical journals
Includes articles from 80 countries in addition to the United States
Searching the MEDLINE database is the starting point for finding biomedical literature.
For journal articles that address clinical questions. Publication types included are clinical trials, RCT, double blind studies, and case reports. Key categories of therapy, diagnosis, prognosis and etiology are emphasized
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For journal articles that address human basic research. Publication types included are research support N.I.H. and research support U.S. Gov’t, P.H.S.
