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PM&R Lecture Series: PubMed

What is PubMed?

PubMed is a free web-based interface for searching MEDLINE.

  • PubMed is created by the National Library of Medicine, and contains the MEDLINE database.
  • It covers journal articles in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the health care system.
  • PubMed has information about journal articles(currently over 24 million) published in 5,600 journals in 30 languages dating back to 1946.
  • It does not include information about meeting abstracts, conference proceedings, dissertations, patents, or websites.
  • NLM indexers add words called Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to the information about each article. Searching with MeSH words helps you find more relevant articles.

PubMed Homepage

  • You can learn more about PubMed by exploring the links provided on the PubMed homepage.
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The PubMed homepage

How do I find PubMed?

PubMed is one of the databases offered through the AHEC Digital Library (AHEC). If you have an account already, you can go there directly by following this link.

PubMed - National Library of Medicine

PubMed - Advanced Search Builder