A database is electronic information. Perhaps one of the most important information sources in medicine is that which is accessed electronically through a database named MEDLINE, the core medical literature published since 1966. MEDLINE is sold by three major vendors (BRS, Dialog, and the National Library of Medicine) to information experts and to medical experts. Information experts (librarian...

The rapid growth of public literature databases like MEDLINE has created the need to efficiently store, retrieve and update the millions of scholarly articles and literature they contain. We believe using alternative database systems like Native XML databases (NXD) will greatly speed up the update process significantly. We used existing and selfdeveloped software packages to parse and load the ...

Clinical coding and classification processes transform natural language descriptions in clinical text into data that can subsequently be used for clinical care, research, and other purposes. This systematic literature review examined studies that evaluated all types of automated coding and classification systems to determine the performance of such systems. Studies indexed in Medline or other r...

The Editorial Board is pleased to announce that, commencing with the first issue of Volume 47, the Australian Journal of Physiotherapy will now be listed in the prestigious MEDLINE database. It has long been a goal of past and current Editorial Boards to achieve listing with MEDLINE because of the international exposure that such listing brings. Of the estimated 13,000 to 14,000 biomedical titl...

Pain is a common symptom in humans, which differs significantly depending on their status of health. This review lists the specific features of pain that are necessary for its evaluation and treatment by the health professionals. Extensive review of the recent literature was conducted in electronic databases (PubMed, Medline and Iatrotek) and scientific journals in Greek and English. Pain is pe...

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