Is the U. S. National Library of Medicine’s premier bibliographic database 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 tagged or indexed with “Medical Subject Headings” (MeSH) as the authority list of controlled vocabulary terms
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.
Journal articles 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
