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In the past, a clinician might seek answers to these questions within a textbook. But textbooks are updated infrequently, only every 3-5 years. And a new, definitive study might be published in today's medical journals, but not appear in the most recent textbooks.
The clinician might call an infectious disease specialist. But specialists are very busy, and may not have time to answer such questions.
The clinician might perform a traditional search in a medical database, such as MEDLINE. Unfortunately, a search using the MeSH term "common cold" yields over 1,400 articles written in the last 30 years. Finding a relevant article might take as long as 30 minutes or more.
But today, with Ovid's Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR), answering clinical questions is a whole lot easier. Using Ovid's MEDLINE, a clinician can enter the term "common cold," select the EBM Reviews limit, and in seconds, a small number of high-quality articles appear that discuss prevention and treatment of the common cold.
Some of the articles retrieved have met rigorous inclusion criteria by the international Cochrane Collaboration, and then have been used as the basis for a systematic topic review. Clicking on the Topic Review link retrieves the Cochrane Review "Vitamin C for the Common Cold" which analyzes and synthesizes over 30 of the best clinical
trials on the subject.
Other articles in the result set have been the subject of an evidence-based article review by the editorial staff of ACP Journal Club (a joint project of the American College of Physicians and BMJ Publishing Group) or by the National Health Services (NHS) Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York, England. Clicking on the Article Review link retrieves the enhanced abstract of the article together with commentary about the article's relevance to clinical practice.
So, the result from using EBMR of Ovid: the most comprehensive answer in less than a minute. EBMR helps clinicians to find the best answer to clinical questions in the least amount of time.
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The editors of ACP Journal Club screen the top clinical journals on a regular basis and identify studies that are both methodologically sound and clinically relevant. They write an enhanced abstract of the chosen articles and provide a commentary on the value of the article for clinical practice. Using this source, clinicians can quickly understand and apply to their practice important changes in medical knowledge, without having to read and synthesize for themselves thousands of journal articles.
Every word of the document text in ACP Journal Club is searchable, including references, captions, and footnotes. Searching the ACP Journal Club Fields describes all the searchable fields and provides at least one search example for each. You may also browse the Evidence-Based Medicine and ACP Journal Club publications using the Browse Journals button. Within the Full Text display, hypertext features allow you to display an outline of the document and move immediately to a selected section, and to display complete references cited within the text of a document.
Full text links in the references allow you to explore the evidence in the primary source. Full text references link you to other full text documents within the database, as well as to bibliographic databases such as MEDLINE. Bi-directional linking allows you to link from MEDLINE to documents in the same collection or to journals available in Ovid Full Text.
ACP Journal Club contains the complete contents of the database dating back to 1991. In January 2000 ACP Journal Club and Evidence-Based Medicine merged and, as of that date, all new content is listed as coming from the ACP Journal Club. The Evidence-Based Medicine Table of Contents is maintained for issues prior to 2000. It should be noted that Evidence-Based Medicine was actually a joint publication between the BMJ and ACP and, as such, about 80% of its content were reviews that were intentionally found in ACP Journal Club.
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| Caption Text (CT) | Keywords (KW) | ||
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| Abstract (AB) | Document Type (DT) | References (RF) | |
| Accession Number (AN) | Institution (IN) | Reviewed Source (SR) | |
| Author (AU) | ISSN (IS) | Source (SO) | |
| Author's Response (AP) | Keywords (KW) | Title (TI) | |
| Commentary (CM) | Language (LG) | Update Code (UP) | |
| Commentary Author (AM) | Local Messages (LM) | ||
| Commentary Author's Institution (CI) | Publication Type (PT) | ||
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| Author (AU) | ISSN (IS) | Reviewed Source (SR) | |
| Commentary Author (AM) | Keywords (KW) | Source (SO) | |
| Commentary Author's Institution (CI) | Local Messages (LM) | Title (TI) | |
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| Date of Publication (DP) | Journal Name (JN) | Volume (VO) | |
| Issue/Part (IP) | Pages (PG) | Year of Publication (YR) | |
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Links from ACP to Ovid Full Text: You can move from a source article reference in an ACP review to the corresponding Ovid Full Text document, facilitating seamless exploration of the evidence in the primary source.
Limit an Ovid MEDLINE search to EBM Reviews: In addition to these high quality links between MEDLINE and EBMR databases, it is worth mentioning the EBMR-specific limits within Ovid's MEDLINE. In effect, these limits enable you to filter your MEDLINE results to include only those articles that have met the strict, quality criteria of ACP Journal Club, DARE, or the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. So, for example, you could limit a MEDLINE search to "Article Reviews <ACP Journal Club>," restricting retrieval to those MEDLINE records that have an associated ACP review. You can also limit your MEDLINE search to "All EBMR Article Reviews" to restrict retrieval to only those MEDLINE records that have an associated ACP or DARE review. Or, obtain only MEDLINE records that have an associated Cochrane, ACP, or DARE review by limiting your MEDLINE search to "Evidence Based Medicine Reviews."
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The About this Journal button is available from every Table of Contents, every full text article display, and from the Browse Journals display.
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The "About this Journal" feature, which provides journal-specific information, is also accessible from the Browse Journals screen.
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The following list is sorted alphabetical by field alias. Click a field name to see the description and search information.
| Field Name | Label | Field Name | Label | |
| Abstract | AB | Keywords | KW | |
| All Searchable Fields | AF | Language | LG | |
| Accession Number | AN | Pages | PG | |
| Author | AU | Publication Date | PD | |
| Author's Response | AP | Publication Type | PT | |
| Byline Text | BT | References | RF | |
| Caption Text | CT | Reviewed Article Author | AY | |
| Cited Author | CA | Reviewed Article Date of Publication | DO | |
| Commentary | CM | Reviewed Article Issue/Part | PO | |
| Commentary Author | AM | Reviewed Article Journal Name | SJ | |
| Commentary Author's Institution | CI | Reviewed Article Journal Word | RW | |
| Contents by Journal Name | TJ | Reviewed Article Pages | GO | |
| Contents by Volume | TV | Reviewed Article Title | TO | |
| Date of Publication | DP | Reviewed Article Volume | DV | |
| Document Type | DT | Reviewed Source | SR | |
| Full Text | TX | Source | SO | |
| Institution | IN | Title | TI | |
| ISSN | IS | Update Code | UP | |
| Issue/Part | IP | Volume | VO | |
| Journal Name | JN | Year of Publication | YR | |
| Journal Words | JW |
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The following list is sorted alphabetically by the two-letter label, and includes the relevant alias, at least one example for all searchable ACP fields, and a description of the field.
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| AB | Abstract [Word Indexed] bone density.ab. drug abuse.ab. |
The Abstract (AB) field summarizes the content of the document and generally describes the background, methods, results, and conclusions. Only documents which appeared in print with an abstract will include an abstract in this database. Stopwords such as "of" or "the" display in documents but are not searchable and do not appear in the Abstract field. |
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| AF | All Searchable Fields fatty acid.af. |
All Fields (AF) is an alias for all of the fields which occur in the source documents, including value-added fields such as Subject Headings. |
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| AM | Commentary Author [Phrase Indexed] smith.am. john$.am. |
The Commentary Author (AM) field contains the names of all the authors of the commentary of the reviewed article, in the order in which they appear in the article. Author names appear in the format of last name followed by first and middle names, or last name followed by two initials. |
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| AN | Accession Number [Phrase Indexed] |
| The Accession Number (AN) field contains a 22-digit number which uniquely identifies each document in the database. While searching this field, include all leading zeros and internal hyphens. The Accession Number is not related to the 8-digit MEDLINE Unique Identifier. | |
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| AP | Author's Response [Word Indexed] bell's palsy.ap. consensus.ap. |
The Author's Response (AP) field contains any response the author of the original article made to the commentary (review) of the original study. Information in the author's response field is also included in the Full Text (TX) field as well. The author's full name is included in this field along with the response. |
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| AU | Author [Phrase Indexed] ashton carol m.au. haynes$.au. |
The Author (AU) field is an alias which includes the names of all authors of a document, including the commentary authors, in the order in which they appear in the article. Author names appear in the format of last name followed by first and middle names, or last name followed by up to two initials. |
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| AY | Reviewed Article Author [Phrase Indexed] chapman kr.ay. |
| The Reviewed Article Author (AY) field contains the names of all the authors of the article or study being reviewed. This field is phrase indexed. Type the desired author's last name, followed by a space and the initial, if known. If you are unsure of the spelling of the last name, enter one version and you will be able to scroll through the index of names to find the others. | |
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| BT | Byline Text [Word Indexed] netherlands.bt., source of funding.bt. |
| The Byline Text (BT) field contains miscellaneous information about the article. Information about grants, dates of publisher acceptance, and so on, is included in this field. If the article was published in both ACP Journal Club and BMJ'sEvidence-Based Medicine, the BMJ citation will appear in this field. | |
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| CA | Cited Author [Phrase Indexed] avorn j.ca. |
| The Cited Author (CA) field includes the names of authors cited in references. Author names are entered into the index in the format of last name followed by first and middle names, or last name followed by initials. | |
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| CI | Commentary Author's Institution [Word Indexed] harvard university.ci., washington university medical center.ci. |
The Commentary Author's Institution (CI) field lists the affiliation(s) of the commentary author(s) as noted in the document at the time of publication. The mailing address is often given, as are grant numbers and the names of the institutions financially supporting the research. |
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| CM | Commentary [Word Indexed] adjuvant therapy.cm. |
The Commentary (CM) field contains a brief, highly expert comment on the context of each article [appearing in the Reviewed Source (SR) field], its methods and clinical applications that its findings warrant. Stopwords such as "of" or "the" will display in documents, but are not searchable and will not appear in the Commentary field. |
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| CT | Caption Text [Word Indexed] mitochondria.ct. squamous cell.ct. |
| The Caption Text (CT) field includes the descriptive text for tables, figures, and other graphics as they appear in the journal in which the document was published. | |
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| DO | Reviewed Article Date of Publication [Word Indexed] "1997".do. |
| The Reviewed Article Date of Publication (DO) field contains information such as the season, quarter, month, day, and year of publication for article or study being reviewed. To find reviewed articles published in September, type "sep" and use the index to select all relevant variations. You may want to combine a season or month with a year and a journal name to narrow the results. | |
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| DP | Date of Publication [Word Indexed] |
| The Date of Publication (DP) field contains the month, year, and possibly day that the journal was published. This field usually displays as part of the Source (SO) field. | |
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| DT | Document Type [Phrase Indexed] |
| The Document Type (DT) field supplements the Publication Type (PT) field by providing an additional, more specific description of a document's form and substance. This field will often contain the titles of columns of regular features that are specific to a given journals publication. Enter the first few letters of the desired document type, or root on the letter "a" to view and select from the complete list of document types and words that appear as part of document types. | |
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| DV | Reviewed Article Volume [Phrase Indexed] |
| The Reviewed Article Volume (DV) field contains the volume of the printed journal in which the Reviewed Article was published. This field displays as part of the Reviewed Source (SR) field. | |
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| GO | Reviewed Article Pages [Phrase Indexed] |
| The Reviewed Article Pagination (GO) field contains the starting page number in the printed journal in which the reviewed article was published. This field displays as part of the Reviewed Source (SR) field. Often, a search using the publication year and the beginning page number is enough to locate a particular citation. | |
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| IN | Institution [Word Indexed] |
| The Institution (IN) field lists the affiliation(s) or the author(s) as noted in the document at the time of publication. The mailing address is often given, as are grant numbers and the names of institutions financially supporting the research. | |
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| IP | Issue/Part [Word Indexed] "9".ip. |
| The Issue/Part (IP) field includes the issue and supplement number in which the document was published. This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field. | |
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| IS | ISSN [Phrase Indexed] 1056 8751.is. |
| The ISSN (IS) field contains the International Standard Serial Number for the journal in which the document was published. | |
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| JN | Journal Name [Phrase Indexed] acp journal club.jn. |
The Journal Name (JN) field contains the full name of the journal in which the article (i.e., review, editorial, or letter) was published. This database contains only two journals--ACP Journal Club and BMJ's Evidence-Based Medicine. Stopwords such as "of" are included in the JN index, but when "the" is the first word of a journal, it has been stripped. The word "and", which is a Boolean operator and a stopword in most fields, can be searched in the Journal Name field using the ampersand ("&"). |
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| JW | Journal Words [Word Indexed] medicine.jw. |
The Journal Word (JW) field contains individual words from every journal name in the database. This database contains only two journals--ACP Journal Club and BMJ's Evidence-Based Medicine. This field is used to retrieve every occurrence of a journal which includes a particular word such as "dermatology." The JW index is not available on the Microsoft Windows NT platform. |
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| KW | Keywords [Word Indexed] metabolism.kw. lymphocytes.kw. |
| The Keywords (KW) field contains author assigned terms that describe the document. This field exists only for documents where the author has assigned keywords. | |
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| LG | Language [Phrase Indexed] english.lg. |
| The Language (LG) field contains the language or languages in which the main body of the document is written. | |
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| PD | Publication Date [Phrase Indexed] 19960801.pd. |
| The Publication Date (PD) field contains an 8-digit number representing the year, month, and day (in YYYYMMDD format) in which documents were published in the original print journals. Enter the desired date in the format "YYYYMMDD" where "YYYY" corresponds to the 4-digit year, "MM" to the 2-digit month, and "DD" to the day. Use truncation "199711$.up." or "1997$.up." to retrieve all the records published in a particular month or year. | |
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| PG | Pages [Phrase Indexed] "9".pg. "103".pg. |
| The Pages (PG) field contains the starting page number in the printed journal in which the document was published. The field displays as part of the Source (SO) field. Often, a search using the publication year and the beginning page number is enough to locate a particular citation. | |
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| PO | Reviewed Article Issue/Part [Word Indexed] "9".po. |
| The Reviewed Article Issue/Part (PO) field includes the issue and supplement number in which the reviewed article was published. This field displays as part of the Reviewed Source (SR) field. | |
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| PT | Publication Type [Phrase Indexed] therapeutics.pt. editorial.pt. |
| The Publication Type (PT) field describes a document's overall form and substance in broad categories. These publication types include therapeutics, editorial, diagnosis, prognosis, economics, quality improvement, and letter. Enter the first few letters of the desired publication type, or root on the letter "a" to view and select from the complete list of publication types. | |
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| RF | References [Word Indexed] obstet gynecol.rf. barnett go.rf. |
| The Reference (RF) field includes complete bibliographic citations for the publications cited by authors in full text documents. These references can be viewed along with the citation or with full text. Enter the desired reference information, consisting of words typically found in reference. Consider searching on words in document title, journal name or abbreviation, author name, page number, or year. | |
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| RW | Reviewed Article Journal Word [Word Indexed] neurology.rw. |
| The Reviewed Article Journal Word (RW) field contains individual words from every journal in which a reviewed article was published. | |
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| SJ | Reviewed Article Journal Name [Phrase Indexed] |
| The Reviewed Article Journal Name (SJ) field contains the full name of the journal in which the Reviewed Article was published. | |
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| SO | Source evidence based medicine.so. "1992".so. |
| The Source (SO) field includes the basic information needed to locate a source document, including the Journal Name (JN), Volume (VO), Issue/Part (IP), Pages (PG), Date of Publication (DP) and Year of Publication (YR) . | |
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| SR | Reviewed Source arch gen psychiatry.sr. meyer tj.ay. |
| The Reviewed Source (SR) field includes the complete bibliographic citation(s) for the publication(s) being reviewed. These references can be viewed with the citation or with the full text. Enter the desired reference information, consisting of words typically found in a reference. Consider searching on words in the document title, journal name or abbreviation, author name, page number, or year. If you know the specific information you are seeking (for example, a document title), you may also choose to search in the Reviewed Article Title (TO), Reviewed Article Journal (SJ), Reviewed Article Author (AY), Reviewed Article Page Number (GO), or Reviewed Article Year (YO). When available, reviewed source references in the full text document contain links to bibliographic and full text records. | |
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| TI | Title [Word Indexed] |
The Title (TI) field contains the English language version of the title as it appears in the journal. Stopwords such as "of" or "the" display in documents but do not appear in the title index. However, the word "a", which is a stopword in other fields, can be searched in the title field. |
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| TJ | Contents by Journal Name [Phrase Indexed] evidence based medicine.tj. |
| The Contents by Journal Name (TJ) displays each issue of a certain journal in the database. This field differs from the Journal Name (JN) field in that the Contents by Journal Name field brings up entire issues of a journal, while the Journal Name field retrieves the individual articles from those issues. | |
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| TO | Reviewed Article Title [Word Indexed] |
The Reviewed Article Title (TO) field contains the title of the source being reviewed. Stopwords such as "of" or "the" will display in documents but do not appear in the title index. However, the word "a", which is a stopword in other fields, can be searched in the title field. |
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| TV | Contents by Volume [Phrase Indexed] vol 2.tv. |
| The Contents by Volume (TV) field contains each journal issue available in the database. | |
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| TX | Full Text [Word Indexed] panadol.tx. |
The Full Text (TX) field contains the complete document text. This field allows you to retrieve all documents with even the most passing mention of your search term. Since this field contains such a large quantity of diverse information, most searches for a specific subject retrieve more relevant results if conducted in the Title (TI) or Abstract (AB) fields. Stopwords, which include commonly occurring words such as "of" and "the" display in the documents but do not appear in the Full Text index. |
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| UP | Update Code [Phrase Indexed] 19971128.up. |
| The Update Code (UP) field contains a 8-digit number representing the year, month and day in (YYYYMMDD format) in which documents were published in this database. Enter the desired date in the format "YYYYMMDD" where "YYYY" corresponds to the four digit year, "MM" to the two digit month and "DD" to the day. Use truncation "199711$.up." or "1997$.up." to retrieve all the records added in a particular month or year. | |
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| VO | Volume [Phrase Indexed] |
| The Volume (VO) field contains the volume of the printed journal in which the document was published. This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field. | |
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| YR | Year of Publication [Word Indexed] "1997".yr. |
| The Year of Publication (YR) field contains the year in which the printed journal containing the document was published. This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field. | |
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Words of little intrinsic meaning that occur too frequently to be useful in searching text are known as stopwords. You cannot search for the following stopwords by themselves, but you can include them within phrases by placing the entire phrase within quotation marks.
| a | can | how | no | seem | through |
| about | could | however | nor | seen | thus |
| after | did | if | not | several | to |
| again | do | in | now | should | under |
| all | does | into | obtain | show | up |
| almost | done | is | obtained | showed | upon |
| also | during | it | of | shown | use |
| although | each | its | often | shows | used |
| always | either | itself | on | significant | using |
| among | enough | just | only | significantly | various |
| an | especially | kg | or | since | very |
| and | etc | km | other | so | was |
| another | followed | largely | our | some | we |
| any | following | like | out | such | were |
| approximately | for | made | over | suggest | what |
| are | found | mainly | overall | than | when |
| as | from | make | per | that | whereas |
| at | further | may | perhaps | the | which |
| be | give | might | possible | their | while |
| because | given | min | previously | theirs | with |
| been | giving | mm | quite | them | within |
| before | had | more | rather | then | without |
| being | hardly | most | really | there | would |
| between | has | mostly | regarding | these | |
| both | have | must | resulted | they | |
| but | having | nearly | resulting | this | |
| by | here | neither | same | those |
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Popular Command and Sentence Syntax for Limits:
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| Sentence Syntax: | limit 1 to commentary |
| Command Syntax: | ..l/1 cm=y |
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| Sentence Syntax: | limit 1 to letter |
| limit 1 to diagnosis | |
| limit 1 to therapeutics | |
| Publication Years | |
| Sentence Syntax: | limit 1 to yr=1996 |
| Command Syntax: | ..l/1 yr=1996 |
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| Command Syntax: | ..c/acp |
| Sentence Syntax: | use acp |
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The copyrights for the journal articles are held by their respective journals. For each journal-specific copyright information, use the About This Journal feature.
The following general usage statement applies to all journals:
The materials contained herein are proprietary to the publishers and/or individual copyright holders and may only be used by authorized users of the subscribing institutions for internal or personal research. Authorized users may (i) print data obtained from searches and make limited copies of such printed search results, (ii) download data obtained from searches and (iii) retransmit search results electronically or otherwise to a limited number of authorized users at the same institution. Authorized users are precluded from: (i) copying, duplication, redistribution, retransmission, publication, transfer or commercial or other exploitation of the databases or the contents thereof, except as permitted herein or pursuant to user guidelines of the individual copyright holders, (ii) preparation of derivative works or incorporation of the databases or contents thereof in any other work or system; (iii) downloading of the contents in their entirety or lengthy sequence. Authorized users are referred to the individual copyright holder and/or to the copyright holder's usage guidelines within this database for additional restrictions which may be imposed by the copyright holder.
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