Medline: A Guide to Effective Searching in PubMed and Other Interfaces, Second Edition - Softcover

Brian Katcher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967344514 ISBN 13: 9780967344515

Publisher: Ashbury Press, 2006

Synopsis

This concise and clearly written book will make your PubMed searches more productive. MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's on-line bibliographic database, is the premiere index to the world's biomedical literature. It is the primary component of PubMed. MEDLINE is exquisitely organized: each journal article is manually indexed under an average of a dozen Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), one or more publication types, and more. An understanding of this organization is essential to effective searching. Any health professional, health sciences student, or researcher will benefit from reading this book. It 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 for framing questions, and backs everything up with practical examples.

About this title

About the Author

Brian S. Katcher, Pharm.D., is the author of MEDLINE: a guide to effective searching in PubMed and other interfaces, now in its second edition. He was one of the founding editors of Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs, a textbook used in training clinical pharmacists. He has also written for the American Journal of Public Health, other scholarly journals, and for the mass market consumer press. Dr. Katcher is deputy director of the Community Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Branch of the San Francisco Department of Public Health and Associate Clinical Professor of Pharmacy at the University of California San Francisco. His main work at the San Francisco Department of Public Health is promoting community-based, environmentally-focused primary prevention activities. He is interested in both the clinical use of drugs for common health problems and public health strategies to reduce the burden of these problems. His promotion of the most effective use of PubMed/MEDLINE supports a larger vision of evidence-based health policy and practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashbury Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967344514
• ISBN 13: 9780967344515
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 148