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> > 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. > > > > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%