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PICO Levels of Evidence Searching MEDLINE Clinical Filters Other EBM Databases EBM Publications WEB Internet Resources HOME Evidence Based Medicine - UIC Library - University of Illinois at Chicago

What is MEDLINE?

  • premiere biomedical database produced by the National Library of Medicine

  • electronic version of Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, International Dental Literature

  • coverage: 1966 - present

  • indexes 4,000+ international biomedical journals

  • includes journal articles, reviews, letters, editorials, comments

  • does NOT include books, conference papers, meeting abstracts, theses

  • abstracts available for many entries

  • citations may be retrieved by author name, Medical Subject Headings, text words from titles or abstracts

  • available in different platforms from the National Library of Medicine, commercial vendors, and universities

  • free MEDLINE access is available through NLM's PubMed

  • UIC provides access to Ovid MEDLINE as another alternate search engine for searching the MEDLINE database.

PICO Levels of Evidence Searching MEDLINE Clinical Filters Other EBM Databases EBM Publications WEB Internet Resources HOME

This page is maintained at www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsp/resources/ebm.shtml by Jo Dorsch, UIC Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria. Please send comments to Jo Dorsch jod@uic.edu.


Last updated: Tuesday, 02-Dec-2003 09:28:06 CST
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