> From: Self <NPvanDuijn.DIVJ.AMC>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Indexed Journals
> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:48:23 +0100
> The suggestion of Peg Allen to use the PubMed entry to Medline is
> indeed the best.
>
> The PubMed site for entry of Medline has been tested recently, along
> with 5 more, by Joost Zaat (in Huisarts & Wetenschap,
> january 1999 -the journal of the Dutch Colleges of GP's. I don't
> recall at the moment if it has an abstract in english). He choose
> 5 very different search questions. 3 of them where on a
> subject of which a sort of gold standard was available, a set of
> studies that should be found, e.g. all trials on the antibiotic
> treatment of acute bronchitis. And 2 clinical questions. One was to
> find quickly a recent review on a very rare disease as rare diseases
> occur frequently in a GP-practice of 2000-2500 patients. Joost Zaat
> concluded that PubMed was the best.
>
> Talking about evidence-based medicine, here an example of
> evidence-based searching.
>
> Nico van Duijn
> Depart, General Practice
> Division of Public Health
> Academic Medical Centre
> University of Amsterdam
>
>
>
> > Reply-to: "Peg Allen" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:18:42 -0600
> > Subject: Re: Indexed Journals
> > From: "Peg Allen" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > OK, here is one librarian response.
> > For MEDLINE, you can search for indexed journals using the Journal Browser
> > feature in PubMed - choice on left at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
> > MEDLINE indexes approximately 3900 of the estimated 13,000+ biomedical
> > journals published. About 88% of the indexed material is written in
> > English, so third worlds coverage may not be that great.
> >
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