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Published in: PharmacoEconomics 12/2013

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 | Issue 12/2013

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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). …
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Metadata
Title
Search MEDLINE for Economic Evaluations: Tips to Translate an OVID Strategy into a PubMed One
Authors
Mattias Neyt
Patrice X. Chalon
Publication date
01-12-2013
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
PharmacoEconomics / Issue 12/2013
Print ISSN: 1170-7690
Electronic ISSN: 1179-2027
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-013-0103-0

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