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International Journal of Health Technology Assessment 2009 (Vol 25 No 4) Contents Page

Fade Fave: How well do search filters perform in identifying economic evaluations in MEDLINE and EMBASE

Fade Skinny: Economic evaluations are used in order to assess the cost-effectiveness of healthcare technologies. This article assesses the role of MEDLINE and EMBASE in identifying economic evaluations.

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A la Biblioteca de Farmàcia oferim i programem durant tot el curs acadèmic diverses sessions de formació sobre la consulta de bases de dades i altres recursos de la Biblioteca. Aquí veureu l’oferta d’aquest trimestre. Animeu-vos a inscriure-us que us estalviareu molt de temps en les vostres cerques d’informació.

Trobareu informació de totes les sessions programades a les diferents biblioteques del CRAI a la pàgina de formació d’usuaris, que és on  també us podeu apuntar a una o més sessions omplint el/els formulari/s que apareix/en al final de cadascuna de les fitxes de les sessions.

Recordeu que també podeu demanar cursos a mida per a un grup omplint el corresponent formulari via web o bé trucant-nos o venint a la biblioteca.

MEDLINE คือฐานข้อมูลที่ครอบคลุมวารสารสาขา life sciences จำนวนกว่า 5,200 ชื่อ จากประเทศต่างๆ กว่า 80 ประเทศ จัดทำโดย U.S. National LIbrary of Medicine (NLM)

PubMed = Public MEDLINE
MEDLINE เป็นส่วนหนึ่งของ PubMed

สมัยก่อนที่จะมี PubMed บนอินเทอร์เน็ต เราใช้ฐานข้อมูล MEDLINE ในรูปแบบตัวเล่มและ CD-ROM ซึ่ง MEDLINE มีลักษณะพิเศษคือ ข้อมูลทุกระเบียนจะผ่านการทำดรรชนี (Indexed) เพื่อการสืบค้น โดยมีการกำหนดคำศัพท์ที่ควบคุม ที่เรียกว่า Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) หรือหัวเรื่องทางการแพทย์

ต่อมาเมื่อปี 1997 ทางรัฐบาลอเมริกัน (สมัยรองประธานาธิบดีอัลกอร์) ได้ประกาศให้ MEDLINE เป็นฐานข้อมูลฟรี บนอินเตอร์เน็ต ในกลุ่มของ NLM Databases ใช้ชื่อว่า PubMed และมีข้อมูลที่มากกว่า MEDLINE เดิม เนื่องจาก

• เพิ่มระเบียนบทความวารสาร ที่ยังไม่ผ่านกระบวนการให้หัวเรื่อง MeSH (pre-MEDLINE)
• เพิ่มระเบียนบทความที่อยู่ในวารสาร life sciences แต่มีเนื้อหาเกี่ยวข้องกับสาขาอื่นเช่นฟิสิกส์ เคมี ดาราศาสตร์ ฯลฯ
• เพิ่มระเบียนบทความวารสาร จากฐานข้อมูล OldMEDLINE หรือข้อมูลเก่าในช่วงปี 1948-1965 (MEDLINE เริ่มปี 1966-)
• ครอบคลุมบทความจากวารสาร life sciences อื่นๆ ที่ให้ free full-text แก่ PubMed Central แต่ไม่ได้มีชื่ออยู่ในฐานข้อมูล MEDLINE มาก่อน

การคัดเลือกวารสารเข้าฐานข้อมูล MEDLINE มีคณะกรรมการตรวจสอบคุณภาพคือ Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC) ของ NLM ซึ่งมีกฎเกณฑ์คัดเลือกวารสาร peer-reviewed ที่ดีพอสมควร เพื่อให้ MEDLINE ครอบคลุมวารสารสาขา Life sciences และ Biomedicine ได้อย่างครบถ้วน

Hi All

Stumbled accross these OvidSP video tutorials from Cushing / Whitney Medical Library, Yale University Library. They’re short and sweet – give them a go if you need further help with using Ovid/Medline.

Happy searching!

MEDLINE® with Full Text is also the world’s most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,450 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE. . . “  (for more information, go here)

Image Credit/Source: http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/pithy – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009

Try as I might, I couldn’t make this post pithy.  Sorry.

Based on some in-depth questions I’ve heard at the Reference Desk this month, this is a short long post on the structure and organization of medical information developed by U.S. agencies which collect, organize, share and otherwise distribute biological information for the purposes of basic science, clinical or translational research.

Graduate medical, dental or PhD students already search MEDLINE and other literature sources from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) but the purpose of this post is to illustrate ways to search these resources more effectively, or at least more time-efficiently.  If the first part of the post is too basic for you, please shoot down to the second section.

National Library of Medicine (NLM) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) are the U.S. agencies responsible for managing and administrating the NCBI, whose stated mission is to: 

“… develop new information technologies to aid in the understanding of fundamental molecular and genetic processes that control health and disease. More specifically, the NCBI has been charged with creating automated systems for storing and analyzing knowledge about molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics; facilitating the use of such databases and software by the research and medical community; coordinating efforts to gather biotechnology information both nationally and internationally; and performing research into advanced methods of computer-based information processing for analyzing the structure and function of biologically important molecules “.

Text source: http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/glance/ourmission.html

• Click here and here to see the collections of information resources accessible via the NCBI website.

• Please take a look at this nice visualization of digitally- interconnected resources available from NCBI servers.

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Entrez – also called the “life sciences search engine” – was designed by NCBI staff as a means to enable users to search across multiple databases or indexes to retrieve integrated search results from sequence, mapping, taxonomy and structural data for both human and non-human subjects.

Below is screenshot showing results from a search done recently on Entrez for data from NCBI servers on Protein 53, a human transcription factor:

Image Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/gquery – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009

Wow – That search retrieved almost too much information!  What if your search requirements don’t include the need for data about genomics or DNA sequencing?

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Then consider the list of open-access Literature Databases available from NCBI.  A few of the best are highlighted here:

• OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) is a searchable literature index that indexes data on 12,000 human genes and genetic disorders.  OMIM is updated daily.

• NCBI Bookshelf is a growing collection of more than 100 free, open-access digital biomedical books that can be searched directly on the site.  Here is one real-life example: I went to Gene Tests to get to Gene Reviews to look up basic factual information about two genetic diseases, Friedreich Ataxia and Glycogen Storage Disease Type I.  There is also an online glossary, great for looking up quick definitions in PBL… such as this entry for allele.
  
• Open access journals can be read or downloaded by anyone using PubMedCentral (PMC), NIH’s free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.  PMC is a great site to get to know (and bookmark).  For a FAQ sheet on PMC, click here.

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Pithy Librarian says:  “Try searching MEDLINE first.”

Library User responds: “Do you mean search PubMed?“

MEDLINE, another NCBI database, is a major component of PubMed* but there is more there than just that database.  Happily, librarians from NLM have written a good MEDLINE FAQ page that explains those details.

MEDLINE is a medical literature index containing 19,000,000 records indexing articles from 5,200 international biomedical journals (in 28 languages), and covering the time period of 1948 through 2009.  Each year, approximately 600,000 new records are added to the database.   In other words, it’s a big database to search–but not as big as Scopus, a real Godzilla of a database, weighing in at 38,000,000 records.  The printed precursor to MEDLINE was Index Medicus, which is no longer being produced.

A key concept to remember when searching MEDLINE is that the database is indexed using what librarians call a “controlled vocabulary” – officially called the Medical Subject Headings List (or MeSH), a standardized thesaurus of 300,000+ terms used to electronically index each new article.

Think of MeSH terms as “tags“… similar to tagging your photos in Flickr.

How does these tags get into MEDLINE?  Actual (i.e., human) medical librarians working at the National Library of Medicine read and digitally assign appropriate MeSH terms to describe the contents and scope of individual journal articles. These information scientists are trained indexers and generally have other advanced degrees in biology, molecular genetics and so on which enable them to “parse” the mechanics of what the published article is about.

The majority of MEDLINE citations are tagged with 8 to 12 MeSH terms**. Because of those hand-crafted tags attached electronically to each journal article, when we search for a specific MeSH term, those records are retrieved into our citation list.  It is a scientific way to search. It is definitely not Googling.

A different way of constructing a precise search statement is to select MeSH terms in combination with the  list of clinical subheadings which combine with MeSH terms to narrow a search in an elegant way.  Clinical qualifiers are defined by NLM as:

” … 83 topical qualifiers used for indexing and cataloging in conjunction with [MeSH] descriptors. Qualifiers afford a convenient means of grouping together those citations which are concerned with a particular aspect of a subject. Not every qualifier is suitable for use with every subject heading…. Subheadings are linked to the full record in the MeSH Browser.”

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Following is a screenshot of the MeSH page showing the list of qualifiers which can be combined with the MeSH term “Pancreatic Neoplasms“:

Image Source: http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=mesh – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009

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Sailors in old Hollywood movies sometimes were heard to yell, “Land Ho!”

That is what I thought after scanning the 201o New MeSH Headings List recently released, and seeing a few new terms that medical librarians really like – such as this one:

Image Source: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2010/MB_cgi?mode=&index=25567&field=all&HM=&II=&PA=&form=&input= – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009

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The list of new MeSH Descriptors is always interesting to browse.  National Library of Medicine states that currently there are 25,186 descriptors in the 2009 MeSH List.   Read the Introduction to 2010 MeSH List here.

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Many excellent handouts and links to tutorials about using information resources from NCBI can be viewed at this link, and thanks to the librarians at the National Networks of Libraries of Medicine-Greater Midwest Region for creating this page.

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Finally, please note that there are many more resources on the NCBI server than those explained above.  Gene libraries, DNA, RNA, proteins analysis or sequencing are very much out of the scope of my expertise.

One example is the link shown below – for DNA & RNA Resources – as one place to start exploration of genes, protein and sequence analysis (screenshot below):

Image Source: http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/guide/dna-rna/ – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009

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* PubMed has undergone recent design changes this month, although the “old” and the “new” PubMed versions will co-exist for the present.

** MEDLINE is a database comprised of 19,000,000 individual records.  Indexing a new citation requires careful attention to detail; tagging (indexing) for MEDLINE is never done by bots to create links based on the number of hits of a given term.  Each record is considered and evaluated by hand, which accounts for the indexing backlog (i.e., the difference between the moment when a new journal citation is delivered from the publisher to NLM and is put into the database, versus the period of time that it takes for that individual citation to show up in MEDLINE with a complete set of tags).  The whole indexing process generally is completed at NLM within 45-60 days.

“… LigerCat is a search tool for NCBI’s PubMed that uses tag clouds to provide an overview of important concepts and trends. LigerCat aggregates multiple articles in PubMed, summing their MeSH descriptors and presenting them in a cloud, weighted by frequency “.

Except from:  http://ligercat.ubio.org/about#contact_us

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LigerCat is an abbreviation for Literature and Genomics Resource Catalog, which is a free PubMed search tool developed in 2009 as part of the Biology of Aging project at the MBLWHOI Library at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.

LigerCat is great news for geneticists or anyone involved in translational research, a fairly effortless means of data mining for dynamic links to a very complex literature.

LigerCat can be used to search in several ways: 1) to locate and select a list of individual journal titles indexed in PubMed, 2) search using terms from the National Library of Medicine’s Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) list, 3) search using keywords, 4) search on Genes found in the NCBI databases.

Following is a screenshot of the LigerCat start page:

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A screenshot of the “in process” retrieval process using LigerCat for the MeSH term “pancreatic neoplasms” and keyword term, “pain“,  is shown below.

Notice that LigerCat provides the searcher two choices for getting the results, which could take a few minutes: the option of simply waiting a few moments for the search to execute, or save the shortened URL of the search-strategy to revisit the results at a later time.  That’s nice!

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.Here is a screenshot of the retrieval from LigerCat - which took about 20 seconds to execute:

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.Next:  I used LigerCat do a Gene Search for specific protein sequences.  This is how the site authors described the process of searching genes:

” LigerCat is performing a live BLAST to find similar sequences to your query. Once the sequences are identified, LigerCat will use its indices to map the genes into a set of PubMed articles that reference those genes, and extract all the MeSH terms for those articles. “

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I went to NCBI to  find the Entrez Protein page and then searched FASTA for P53 and Homo Sapiens.  The search statement I found looked like this:

>gi|14993572|gb|AAK76358.1| P53 [Homo sapiens]
VGSDCTTIHYNYMCNSSCMGGMNRRPILTIITLEDS

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This string was copied-and-pasted into the LigerCat Gene search box for the following result:

All images above – Courtesy  of LigerCat – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009

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As a medical librarian, I think LigerCat is a great step forward — but because the value of information lies in the eye of the beholder — I’ll wait to hear the opinions of geneticists and research scientists as they weigh in on this new search engine.

For a different example of using this resource, see this link from the blog Biology of Aging, dated Aug 21 2009.

On 12 July 2009, this blog published a press release reporting the acceptance (on 3 June) by the journal Medical Hypotheses of an article by Professor Ruggiero and co-workers at the University of Florence pointing out that official policies of the Italian Ministry of Health implied a lack of necessary connection between HIV and AIDS [“Official Italian data: no causal connection between HIV and AIDS”, 12 July 2009].

Consternation ensued among HIV/AIDS vigilantes that so well established, indeed distinguished a research group had produced such a publication. AIDStruthers and other vigilantes organized a letter-writing campaign urging Elsevier — the current publisher of Medical Hypotheses — to withdraw this article which had already been posted on the journal’s website as “in press”. At the same time the letter-writing HIV/AIDS campaigners urged the withdrawal of an article by Duesberg et al. that had been accepted by Medical Hypotheses on 11 June, which pointed out that official South African statistics recorded AIDS deaths at about 12,000 annually while an article in JAIDS had alleged 25 times that number; Duesberg et al. noted too that JAIDS had refused to publish their rebuttal of the flawed article.

The HIV/AIDS vigilantes also sent letters to the National Library of Medicine urging that MEDLINE no longer abstract Medical Hypotheses.

Elsevier’s stated reasons why articles in press might nevertheless be withdrawn include “potentially libelous” content and “potential threat to global public health”. I invite anyone and everyone to judge for themselves whether either of those potentialities exists in those articles, and moreover to ponder what is common to those articles other than questioning HIV/AIDS theory on the basis of substantive evidence; and what about the articles warrants withdrawal after acceptance, by comparison to the 200+ articles still posted at the Medical Hypotheses website as “in press”.

Professor Ruggiero has now been able to point out that the Italian Ministry of Health has actually found helpful the work that he and his students have published, since they have revised some of their policies accordingly. Moreover, the Italian Public Health Service has officially recognized the work by making dissertations available from its website.

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From Professor Ruggiero:

“The theses of Drs. Simone Scarpelli, Matteo Prayer Galletti, and Elda Muca, previously discussed and approved by the University of Firenze, Italy, received official recognition by the Italian Public Health Service and they are now available at the Center for Study and Research on Drug Abuse and AIDS, a Department of the Public Health Service.
It is worth noting that the thesis of Dr. Matteo P. Galletti (now available at request at www.cesda.net, in Italian with an English abstract) was the starting point of the article in Medical Hypotheses (M. Ruggiero, M. P. Galletti, S. Pacini, T. Punzi, G. Morucci, M. Gulisano, “Aids denialism at the ministry of health” (doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2009.06.002), as stated in the article.
We are grateful to the Region of Tuscany and the Department of drug abuse of the Public Health Service for providing official recognition to the results.”

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