Internet for the Family Physician

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For an excellent overview about MEDLINE on the Internet go to the Internet Medline Comparison Table at Medical Matrix: here you can find a list of all Medline services on the Internet (free and fee based). Includes access restrictions, dates covered, fees for document delivery, navigation tools, and utilities for expanding searches to medical concepts.

You can find on the Web the following articles:
• The Medline database, (BMJ, 7101:315:180)
• Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about), (BMJ, 7102:315:243)
• Assessing the methodological quality of published papers, (BMJ, 7103:315:305)
• Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical tests , (BMJ, 7104:315:364)
• Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls , (BMJ, 7105:315:422)
• Papers that report drug trials , (BMJ, 7106:315:480)
• Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests , (BMJ, 7107:315:540)
• Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses) , (BMJ, 7108:315:596)
• Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses) , (BMJ, 7109:315:672)
• Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research) , (BMJ, 7110:315:740)

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) MeSH consists of a set of terms or subject headings arranged in both an alphabetic and a hierarchical structure. You may download a text file with the MeSH headings; these headings are useful to build a more targeted Medline search.

MEDLINE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

Service	Free
Avicenna (Registration Required)	Yes
Evaluated Medline at BioMedNet (Registration Required)	Yes
Community of Science (COS)	No
Dematel	Yes
HealthGate	Yes
Healthworks	Yes
Infotrieve	Yes
National Library of Medicine - Internet Grateful Med (IGM)	Yes
Medscape (Registration Required)	Yes
OBGYN.net	No
Ovid	No
PaperChase	No
National Library of Medicine - PubMed ** One of the best free services **	Yes
SilverPlatter	No

MEDLARS databases on the World Wide Web

Resource	Databases
PubMed	MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE, Basi di dati del National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Internet Grateful Med (IGM)	MEDLINE PREMEDLINE OLDMEDLINE SDILINE AIDSLINE AIDSDRUGS AIDSTRIALS BIOETHICSLINE, CHEMID, DIRLINE, HEALTHSTAR HISTLINE HSRPROJ POPLINE SPACELINE TOXLINE
CANCERLIT	CANCERLIT, PDQ
MeSH Browser	DIZIONARIO MeSH
TOXNET	CCRIS, DART, ETICBACK, EMIC, EMICBACK, GENE-TOX, HSDB, IRIS, TRI
LOCATOR	AVLINE, CATLINE, SERLINE DIRLINE

1. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR): It is a database containing review abstracts. The reviews are choosen by the Australasian Cochrane Centre, an international organization that tries to establish the standards for evidence-based clinical treatment.
   FREE ABSTRACTS
   • http://som.flinders.edu.au/fusa/cochrane/cochrane/revabstr/abidx.htm
   • http://www.hcn.net.au/cochrane/contents.htm

     FULL TEXT (FEE BASED)

   • http://www.medlib.com/

2. Stat Search at Medical Matrix
3. Health Reviews on the Internet : with this search engine you may search evidence-based trials available on the Internet.
4. COPAC: with this free access catalogue the user may access the major UK and Ireland university libraries. Telnet access: telnet copac.ac.uk (login copac | password copac).
5. Health Communication Network Medline (free trial) and the Cochrane Library: fee based.
6. Karolinska Institute Library and Information Center
7. TURNING RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE
8. Cochrane Library: self training guide and notes Downloadable guide (MS Word format)
9. National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin (In formato Adobe Acrobat)
10. DARE Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness Searchable database of structured abstracts that present the methods and conclusions of healthcare reviews in the the medical literature. [From Medical Matrix]
11. MD Consult: This service allows the user to consult full-text journals (24) and full-text leading reference books (32), a comprehensive drug database of 45,000 drug monographs plus other clinical resources. It is possible to search an Enhanced Medline that links complete journal articles. Fee based.
12. PubMed and Internet Grateful Med Medline Tutorial
13. An Evaluation of WWW Medline Services
14. Medline Searching Tips
15. Pubmed and Internet Grateful Med Tutorials
16. Northern Light Medicine Journal Collection
17. Rating Health Information on the Internet (JAMA, 1998;278;611-614)
18. MedFetch E-mail Medline Queries Queries the Medline database for user specified search terms and delivers newly added citations by e-mail. [From Medical Matrix]
19. CANCERLIT® Bibliographic Database
20. Snooz MEDLINE Documentation