Basics of Searching MEDLINE

摘要

The Guide is designed to acquaint the health professional with the basic concepts and skills involved in using MEDLARS to retrieve information from its primary database, MEDLINE. It may be used in a formal training course or as a self-paced learning tool. After carefully reading the Guide and practicing searches on the MEDLINE database, the health professional and novice searcher will have enough knowledge to perform 'author' searches as well as simple subject searches in MEDLINE. For more complicated searches, the health professional may wish to consult an experienced librarian or search analyst.