Medline: A Guide to Effective Searching

[This first edition was extensively revised and updated in a second edition (2006): ISBN 0967344514 ... the second edition is available on Amazon.]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.