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Medline/PUBMED
A quiet revolution occurred in medical information access in 1997 when Medline became free public access. Prior to this, Medline abstracts were available only through paid subscriptions. Medline provides search capability of journal articles dating back to 1966. Although Medline provides only abstracts of articles, it is a valuable adjunct to print resources. For example, a Medline search can be used to find articles available in the surgeon's personal or community library. A Medline adjunct is J.A.D.E (Journal Abstracts
Medline Delivered Electronically) (32).
Subscribers enter their email address and Medline search term to this service,
and receive a weekly email of Medline references and abstracts archived
within the previous week. For a hand surgeon, a J.A.D.E. request using
the search term arm[MeSH Major Topic] will retrieve articles
with a major theme involving the upper arm and all distal structures. This
term is too broad to be useful for general searches, but when limited to
articles archived in a one week period, it produces a tolerable volume
of about 15 citations per week. Alternatively, the same search of
upper extremity citations archived within the last week could be run manually
with the following somewhat cumbersome link:
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