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01-12-2013 | Commentary
Search MEDLINE for Economic Evaluations: Tips to Translate an OVID Strategy into a PubMed One
Authors:
Mattias Neyt, Patrice X. Chalon
Published in:
PharmacoEconomics
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Issue 12/2013
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Excerpt
MEDLINE
® is the US National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains over 20 million references to journal articles in life sciences. Records are indexed following the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH
®), the NLM’s controlled vocabulary thesaurus which consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity (
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/mesh.html). The MEDLINE database is accessible from different sources. Beside PubMed
® (
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/), the free access to MEDLINE provided by the NLM, several commercial companies provide their own interface, among them Wolters Kluwer Health with OvidSP (
http://gateway.ovid.com). …