The National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world’s largest medical library. In 1879, NLM began publishing Index Medicus, a unified international database of biomedical literature. Index Medicus has since evolved into MEDLINE, an online electronic database searchable by using PubMed; it remains the world’s most important index ...

Academic medical centers around the country are developing networking infrastructures and connecting to the Internet. Baylor College of Medicine is developing VÌrlS Retriever, an architecture for comprehensive handling of our institution's database requests. The first implemented instance of this architecture is the MEDLINE Retriever, a tool to query the considerable citation database of medica...

P (http://www.pubmed.gov) is the worldwide best known and accessed service for biomedical researchers. Since 1997 MEDLINE, the bibliographical database edited by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, with its over 17 million citations from about 5 000 journals in 37 languages from all over the world, became freely accessible via web. MEDLINE is the core of PubMed, but in the latest years PubMe...

Objective: The aim of the study was to make a literature review on counseling and family education about the care with tracheostomy and develop a guidance booklet for parents about the cautions in handling tracheostomy tubes at home. Methods: This research is based on literature review from 1992 to 2012, realized from October of 2011 to August 2012, through the following databases: medline, lil...

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Background: Despite the large number of publications, there is still controversy among clinicians regarding the application of dental lasers to the treatment of chronic periodontitis. The purpose of this review is to analyze the peer-reviewed research literature to determine the state of the science concerning the application of lasers to common oral soft tissue problems, root surface detoxific...

Searching The databases searched included CINAHL, MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE, the Cochrane Library, Current

Searching The databases searched included CINAHL, MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE, the Cochrane Library, Current

Objective: Large databases of published medical research can support clinical decision making by providing physicians with the best available evidence. The time required to obtain optimal results from these databases using traditional systems often makes accessing the databases impractical for clinicians. This paper explores whether a hybrid approach of augmenting traditional information retrie...