PubMed misses the big picture when it comes to nutrition

As medical librarians, we’re certainly the first to say that PubMed is a superb database, elegantly crafted at the National Library of Medicine to do fast and efficient searches for almost all medical and health subjects. Much of the power of PubMed is that it makes it possible to search broad subjects easily. When the user searches “cancer,” for example, PubMed quickly finds thousands of citations on all types of cancer, from melanoma to leukemia, whether the word “cancer” appears in the citation or not. Likewise, a search for “antidepressants” finds articles on all specific types of antidepressants. The seeming simplicity of these kinds of broad subject searches, of course, belies the amount of intellectual effort that’s expended to classify subjects into searchable “bundles.” Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Conditions Obesity Source Type: blogs