MEDLINE

"MEDLINE" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

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The premier bibliographic database of the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE. MEDLINE® (MEDLARS Online) is the primary subset of PUBMED and can be searched on NLM's Web site in PubMed or the NLM Gateway. MEDLINE references are indexed with MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS (MeSH).

Descriptor ID

D016239

MeSH Number(s)

L01.470.750.500.650.500

L01.700.508.280.710.500

L01.700.508.280.750.500

L01.700.508.300.188.300.650.500

L01.700.508.300.710.500

L01.700.508.300.742.650.500

Concept/Terms

MEDLINE

Index Medicus

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "MEDLINE".

Information Science [L]
Information Science [L01]
Information Storage and Retrieval [L01.470]
Databases as Topic [L01.470.750]
Databases, Bibliographic [L01.470.750.500]
PubMed [L01.470.750.500.650]
MEDLINE [L01.470.750.500.650.500]
Medical Informatics [L01.700]
Medical Informatics Applications [L01.700.508]
Information Storage and Retrieval [L01.700.508.280]
MEDLARS [L01.700.508.280.710]
MEDLINE [L01.700.508.280.710.500]
PubMed [L01.700.508.280.750]
MEDLINE [L01.700.508.280.750.500]
Information Systems [L01.700.508.300]
Databases as Topic [L01.700.508.300.188]
Databases, Bibliographic [L01.700.508.300.188.300]
PubMed [L01.700.508.300.188.300.650]
MEDLINE [L01.700.508.300.188.300.650.500]
MEDLARS [L01.700.508.300.710]
MEDLINE [L01.700.508.300.710.500]
Online Systems [L01.700.508.300.742]
PubMed [L01.700.508.300.742.650]
MEDLINE [L01.700.508.300.742.650.500]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "MEDLINE".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "MEDLINE".

publications

Timeline | Most Recent

This graph shows the total number of publications written about "MEDLINE" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "MEDLINE" was a major or minor topic of these publication.

Bar chart showing 94 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2005

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1994	0	2	2
1995	0	2	2
1997	0	4	4
1998	0	3	3
1999	0	3	3
2000	1	3	4
2001	0	6	6
2002	1	0	1
2003	0	5	5
2004	1	1	2
2005	0	14	14
2006	1	5	6
2007	0	1	1
2008	2	2	4
2009	0	3	3
2010	0	3	3
2011	0	5	5
2012	1	1	2
2013	0	4	4
2014	1	3	4
2015	0	4	4
2016	1	2	3
2017	0	5	5
2018	1	1	2
2019	0	2	2

Below are the most recent publications written about "MEDLINE" by people in Profiles.

Causal language use in systematic reviews of observational studies is often inconsistent with intent: a systematic survey. J Clin Epidemiol. 2022 08; 148:65-73.

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The Relation Between Household Food Insecurity and Children's Height in Canada and the United States: A Scoping Review. Adv Nutr. 2019 11 01; 10(6):1126-1137.

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The Effect of the Yingyangbao Complementary Food Supplement on the Nutritional Status of Infants and Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nutrients. 2019 Oct 08; 11(10).

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Effect of Red, Processed, and White Meat Consumption on the Risk of Gastric Cancer: An Overall and Dose?Response Meta-Analysis. Nutrients. 2019 Apr 11; 11(4).

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John Shaw Billings: Civil War Surgeon, Medical Librarian, Founder of Index Medicus, and First Director of the New York Public Library. Mayo Clin Proc. 2019 03; 94(3):e45-e46.

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Re-curation and rational enrichment of knowledge graphs in Biological Expression Language. Database (Oxford). 2019 01 01; 2019.

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Expanding vocabularies for complementary and alternative medicine therapies. Int J Med Inform. 2019 01; 121:64-74.

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Searching Embase and MEDLINE by using only major descriptors or title and abstract fields: a prospective exploratory study. Syst Rev. 2018 11 20; 7(1):200.

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Rare Concurrent Retroclival and Pan-Spinal Subdural Empyema: Review of Literature with an Uncommon Illustrative Case. World Neurosurg. 2018 Feb; 110:326-335.

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Letrozole pretreatment prior to medical termination of pregnancy: a systematic review. Contraception. 2018 06; 97(6):504-509.

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