Journal of the American Dental Association, Vol 127, Issue 4, 510-516
Copyright © 1996 by American Dental Association
Accessing MEDLINE from the dental office
KP Ahluwalia
and
WP Lang
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, University of Maryland, USA.
Electronic access to on-line information is now available for dentists. One such resource is MEDLINE, a database of more than 7,500,000 biomedical references indexed by the National Library of Medicine. MEDLINE searching can be performed on-line or locally using a CD-ROM drive. Dentists should evaluate equipment requirements, availability of training, extent of the bibliographic database, ease of using the searching software and adequacy of documentation before selecting a mode of MEDLINE access.