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Codifying discrepancies among MEDLINE platforms to advance instruction and practice

Burns, C. Sean; Nix, Tyler; Shapiro, Robert M., II; Huber, Jeffrey T.

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Title
Codifying discrepancies among MEDLINE platforms to advance instruction and practice
Author(s)
  • Burns, C. Sean
  • Nix, Tyler
  • Shapiro, Robert M., II
  • Huber, Jeffrey T.
Issue Date
2019-09-24
Keyword(s)
  • MEDLINE
  • Medical subject headings
  • Instruction
  • Bibliographic databases
  • Information retrieval
Date of Ingest
2019-08-23T21:51:51Z
Abstract
MEDLINE is an essential bibliographic database for health professionals and is an indispensable part of clinical care. Despite that one of MEDLINE’s main features is its use of MeSH, in practice, MEDLINE is offered on a number of platforms and each of these platforms takes very different approaches to using MeSH and in indexing other database fields, leading to variations in search results among the platforms. This project is based on a longitudinal study of these platforms with the goal of outlining how they differ and to provide guidelines for their use by instructors, students, and practitioners.
Series/Report Name or Number
  • Indexing
  • Classification
  • Database systems
  • Curriculum
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Conference Paper / Presentation
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