- Paperback: 149 pages
- Publisher: Ashbury Pr (September 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0967344506
- ISBN-13: 978-0967344508
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,304,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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...a clear and comprehensive presentation of the power of MEDLINE. This book will quickly improve the MEDLINE use of any health care professional. -- Gary M. McCart, Pharm.D., Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California San Francisco
...a very well-written and intelligent guide not only to MEDLINE but also the broader issues of searching bibliographic databases. Anyone interested in improving their search skills and making the fullest use of MEDLINE will benefit from reading this book. -- David Owen, M.L.S., Ph.D., Library & Center for Knowledge Management, University of California San Francisco
An old New Yorker cartoon was captioned, "I predict a great future for complexity." It is a gift beyond our understanding that people have worked for the past 135 years to perfect a system to organize the complexity of the medical literature. But that organization is of full benefit only if we learn how to use it. Katcher has provided a guide of great value that gives us an understanding of how the system works and how to achieve access to 9 million articles in a logical fashion. This is the latest gift for which "searchers after truth" can be grateful. -- William H. Foege, M.D., Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Even in this new age of information, no information is more important to the human condition than that which reveals new insights on health and health prospects. Accordingly, no challenge is more compelling than ensuring that participants have timely and efficient access to the best available research findings as they seek to move the boundaries for the field. This guide to MEDLINE and other bibliographic databases provides an important boost to the efficiency of the search endeavor. -- J. Michael McGinnis, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
MEDLINE: A Guide to Effective Searching is a wonderful tool to aid almost all of us who use MEDLINE. The book clearly meets its intent, "the promotion of better searches and, hence, better application of what is known." The 1997 decision by the Library of Medicine to abandon its fee structure for the World Wide Web has permitted much greater access and thus makes this guide so much more valuable. While the entire monograph has great merit, I think I found the final chapter, "Framing Questions," the most useful. The guide is not only helpful, but it is very well written and enormously practical. I recommend it highly. -- Philip R. Lee, M.D., Senior Advisor to the School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
...a very well-written and intelligent guide not only to MEDLINE but also the broader issues of searching bibliographic databases. Anyone interested in improving their search skills and making the fullest use of MEDLINE will benefit from reading this book. -- David Owen, M.L.S., Ph.D., Library & Center for Knowledge Management, University of California San Francisco
An old New Yorker cartoon was captioned, "I predict a great future for complexity." It is a gift beyond our understanding that people have worked for the past 135 years to perfect a system to organize the complexity of the medical literature. But that organization is of full benefit only if we learn how to use it. Katcher has provided a guide of great value that gives us an understanding of how the system works and how to achieve access to 9 million articles in a logical fashion. This is the latest gift for which "searchers after truth" can be grateful. -- William H. Foege, M.D., Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Even in this new age of information, no information is more important to the human condition than that which reveals new insights on health and health prospects. Accordingly, no challenge is more compelling than ensuring that participants have timely and efficient access to the best available research findings as they seek to move the boundaries for the field. This guide to MEDLINE and other bibliographic databases provides an important boost to the efficiency of the search endeavor. -- J. Michael McGinnis, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
MEDLINE: A Guide to Effective Searching is a wonderful tool to aid almost all of us who use MEDLINE. The book clearly meets its intent, "the promotion of better searches and, hence, better application of what is known." The 1997 decision by the Library of Medicine to abandon its fee structure for the World Wide Web has permitted much greater access and thus makes this guide so much more valuable. While the entire monograph has great merit, I think I found the final chapter, "Framing Questions," the most useful. The guide is not only helpful, but it is very well written and enormously practical. I recommend it highly. -- Philip R. Lee, M.D., Senior Advisor to the School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Book Description
This concise and clearly written book will make your MEDLINE searches more productive. Any health professional will benefit from reading this book, which explains the basics of formulating searches, shows how to put the main indexing elements in MEDLINE to best use, illustrates the importance of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), provides guidance on framing questions, and backs everything up with practical examples. Includes a glossary of all MeSH used in the book and two appendices.
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Now things are easier and clear when searching Medline!,
By Proença, Mário R.P. (Ponta Delgada, Azores Portugal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Medline: A Guide to Effective Searching (Paperback)
After reading this book I thought that it deserved a special review, this is, not the type of review that usually begins with "a must read for every clinician" but something special as this book deserves. Most of us have had already the necessity of accessing Medline database in our research but most of the times we get hit by the results that a simple search presents. We then start browsing and browsing the results and we get tired of so much information that some times does not correspond to our desires or doesn't focus on the subject we were looking for. Now what? - we ask. The answer is simple as the author says; the focus is not just on simple searching but on effective searching. Medline is a complex and very wide database and knowing some of its basic concepts will help us understanding how simple and effective can our search be made. This is what the author presents in this book, a "rutter" for easy and effective navigation in this complex and wide sea of scientific information. There are no secrets in Medline but there are basic concepts like knowing some of the 19,000 Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) or just simple understanding how they are organized and how this understanding will help us to get the effective search results for our needs. This is given by the author with many examples of ways to start an effective search in Medline and thus not waste so much of our precious time browsing through the great amount of information that this resource can present. The book is very accessible in the way that the concepts are presented with many examples and a glossary for quick reference on MeSH. In a couple of hours the reader will with no doubt find this book from Brian S. Katcher an excellent guide and a valuable acquisition. I must say that after reading it, I finally understood how much precious time I've wasted in my "not guided" Medline searches. Now things are easier and clear thanks to the time, the knowledge and the effort that the author has put in this book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Guide to Medline,
By Deborah Feldman (Boston, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Medline: A Guide to Effective Searching (Paperback)
This book is an invaluable guide to Medline. The instructions are extremely clear and easy to understand and the historical information is fascinating. I highly recommend it.
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Excellent!,
By dovamy@hotmail.com (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Medline: A Guide to Effective Searching (Paperback)
After reading this book, I now know how to perform effective searches using MEDLINE. It has cut my research time considerably. My thanks go out to the author for helping make sense of a considerably complex system.
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