Introduction to Josephine Tan, MLIS Education and Information Consultant, Clinical Sciences

Objectives Describe the contents of the PubMed system Perform a basic author search Perform a basic subject search Use limits to narrow a search Use the Clinical Queries feature to search for clinical research in PubMed Use the Display options Print and download citations

What’s the difference between Medline and PubMed? MEDLINEPUBMED Produced by NLM (National Library of Medicine) Produced by NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Over 13 million references to the published journal literature Over 19 million references to the published journal literature (includes all of MEDLINE) Over 5,000 journal titles Includes all or part of HealthSTAR, AIDSLINE, CANCERLIT, SPACELINE, BIOETHICSLINE, and HISTLINE 1966 to present1950 (OLDMEDLINE) to present Updated daily Contains unprocessed records from publishers, including pre-prints (in- process)

Special web address: - Links to UCSF full text subscriptions - Check whether Library owns a journal - Request articles not owned by UCSF

Boolean Operators OR(use to join synonyms) – Vitamin C OR Ascorbic Acid AND (use to combine concepts) – Vitamin C AND cancer

Tips & Tricks Use [ti] to find a word or phrase in the article title Use [tiab] to find a word or phrase in the title or abstract Use “quotation marks” to find an exact phrase Use an * to find variations of a word (ex: evaluat* finds evaluate, evaluated, evaluation, evaluating, etc)

Exercise I Look for randomized control trials reporting on the use of inhalers by teenagers with exercise-induced asthma What is the MeSH term for inhalers?

Exercise II Find articles on the prognosis of heart murmurs in newborns Hint: use Clinical Queries

Exercise III Look for clinical trials or randomized controlled trials, published within the last 5 years in the core clinical journals, that focus on the use of beta blockers to treat coronary heart disease What is the MeSH Term for beta blockers?