Medline
Medline is a very powerful tool for obtaining the
latest diagnostic and treatment findings, and it is
free and easy to use. Medline (MEDlars onLINE) is a
computerized bibliographic database of citations to
published healthcare journal articles maintained by
the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The bibliographic
database covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the
preclinical sciences. It contains bibliographic citations
(e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author
abstracts from over 3900 biomedical journals published
in the United States and 70 foreign countries. Medline
currently contains over 10 million records dating back
to 1966. While medical information is available from
many sources, such as magazine articles, books, and
web sites, Medline is considered a very authoritative
resource because most of the Medline journals use peer
review to determine the scientific validity of articles.
PubMed
While Medline is available for free on at least
20 web sites, PubMed is the web interface designed
by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) which maintains
Medline. NLM designed PubMed for searching over the
Internet. PubMed provides a variety of search modes.
You can run a simple search by entering one search
term in the query box, or you can construct complex
search strategies using Boolean commands and a search
menu interface.
Despite the enormity of the Medline database, it
is easy to search. You will almost always be able
to find what you want using simple search terms.
In a couple of hours of practice and reading of the
online PubMed Manuals, you can become a power user,
taking advantage of MeSH index terms, field searches,
and Boolean connectors. However, even as a search
novice, you will be able to conduct effective searches.
Related
Articles Searches
Citations in PubMed will have a [See
Related Articles] link to the right of the
author. Clicking on this link results in another
search in Medline for articles which are most closely
related to the original article. PubMed compares
words from the Title and Abstract of each citation,
as well as the MeSH headings assigned, using a powerful
word-weighted algorithm. The Related Articles citation
display is in rank order from most to least relevant.
The citation you linked from is displayed first.
This is a very powerful yet simple way to refine
your search.
Search Terms
Religion is a major heading under humanities with
many subcategories covering specific traditions,
such as Buddhism Christianity and Islam.
Religion also includes overlapping areas such as
Religion and Medicine
Religion and Psychology.
Each of these has subheadings as well. For example,
under Religion and Psychology,
are Pastoral Care and Spirituality
Other MeSH descriptors that are relevant to religious
and spiritual problems include
Mind-Body and Relaxation Techniques which includes
meditation
Spiritual Therapies which includes shamanism and
yoga.
MeSH notes that the term Mental Healing is also
relevant.
Link to MeSH
browser to look at terms
QUIZ EXERCISE 38:
Conduct a search for articles on conversion on PubMed by just entering the word conversion. Type or paste the name of a non religious conversion article on the box below.
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using Mesh you can combine terms such as religion
and conversion to hone searches
QUIZ EXERCISE 39:
Conduct a search for articles on conversion on PubMed by first going to Religion and using the MeSH browser. Click ADD this term/subheadings to the Search using operator: AND Then add conversion after where it says"Religion"[MESH]-- so the box contains"Religion"[MESH] conversion Record the name of a religious conversion article in the box below.
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