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Subset [SB]

Searching by subset allows you to limit your search to a particular portion of PubMed.

Use [sb] to qualify Subset. Available values include:

Note: Some of these values are available from the Subsets pull-down menu from Limits to make your selection.

Citation Status Subsets  
MEDLINE searched as medline[sb]
In Process searched as in process[sb]
Publisher Supplied searched as publisher[sb]
OLDMEDLINE searched as oldmedline [sb]
Status tag of [PubMed] searched as pubmednotmedline [sb]
   
Go to the PubMed Overview to review the explanations of these citations status subset values.
Subject Subsets  
AIDS searched as aids[sb]
Bioethics searched as bioethics[sb]
Cancer searched as cancer[sb]
Complementary Medicine searched as cam[sb]
History of Medicine searched as history[sb]
Space Life Sciences searched as space[sb]
Systematic Reviews searched as systematic[sb]
Toxicology searched as tox[sb]
Note: Each Subject Subset uses its own specialized search strategy to aid in the retrieval of citations on these topics. You may view these strategies at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_subsets.html.
PubMed Central searched as pubmed pmc local [sb]
Free full text searched as free full text [sb]
Full text searched as full text [sb]

 
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Last Updated December 14, 2006
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