November 15, 2007 [sentence corrected]
January 29, 2008 [Editor's note added]
Consumer Health Journal Subset Clarification
[Editor's note: The subset, "consumerj," was eliminated on January 29, 2008.]
m edlinePlus® health topic pages usually have links to PubMed® searches. In the past, these search strategies were often limited to citations from a group of consumer health journals by adding consumerj [sb] to the search. This subset was originally created for temporary use by NLM® for MedlinePlus searches. It was not intended for use by PubMed searchers although some searchers came across it. The subset, jsubsetk, is available for PubMed searching. This subset includes complete retrieval for citations in PubMed for a group of consumer health journals indexed for MEDLINE®. To limit to those citations in a search, include the string jsubsetk with no search tag. This past spring, all PubMed search strategies for MedlinePlus health topics that included consumerj[sb] were changed from consumerj [sb] to jsubsetk.
In January 2008, the subset, "consumerj," will be eliminated. PubMed users should replace consumerj[sb] with jsubsetk in any search strategies in use.
As of November 2007, the following consumer health journals are part of jsubsetk:
Currently Indexed Titles:
| Full Journal Title | Journal Title Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| Alternative medicine review: a journal of clinical therapeutic | Altern Med Rev |
| Breastfeeding review: professional publication of the Nursing Mothers’ Association of Australia | Breastfeed Rev |
| Child health alert | Child Health Alert |
| Diabetes forecast | Diabetes Forecast |
| Diabetes self-management | Diabetes Self Manag |
| FDA consumer | FDA Consum |
| Harvard health letter / from Harvard Medical School | Harv Health Lett |
| Harvard heart letter : from Harvard Medical School | Harv Heart Lett |
| Harvard men’s health watch | Harv Mens Health Watch |
| The Harvard mental health letter / from Harvard Medical School | Harv Ment Health Lett |
| Harvard women’s health watch | Harv Womens Health Watch |
| Health news (Waltham, Mass.) | Health News |
| Heart advisor / the Cleveland Clinic | Heart Advis |
| The Johns Hopkins medical letter health after 50 | Johns Hopkins Med Lett Health After 50 |
| Mayo Clinic health letter (English ed.) | Mayo Clin Health Lett |
| Mayo Clinic women’s healthsource | Mayo Clin Womens Healthsource |
| Newsweek | Newsweek (selectively indexed) |
| Time | Time (selectively indexed) |
| US news & world rep | US News World Rep (selectively indexed) |
Ceased/Absorbed Titles:
| Full Journal Title | Journal Title Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| InTouch (Melville, N.Y.) | InTouch (indexed January-September 2002 for jsubsetk; ceased 2002) |
| Medscape women’s health | Medscape Womens Health (indexed January 1998-September/October 2002 for jsubsetk; absorbed by MedGenMed which is not part of jsubsetk) |
The journals chosen for jsubsetk are journals written for consumers, among other audiences. Because many healthcare journals publish individual articles meant for the consumer or patient, for a more comprehensive search we suggest you search for your subject with, jsubsetk OR patient education handout [pt]. This Publication Type (PT) value was introduced in 2002.
- Example: diabetes AND (jsubsetk OR patient education handout [pt])
Please note that the subset value K is assigned automatically to all citations from the journals listed above. Indexers do not assign this value to individual articles. [Correction: This sentence was corrected on November 15, 2007.]
Zipser JR, Klein L, Plumer A. Consumer Health Journal Subset Clarification. NLM Tech Bull. 2007 Nov-Dec; (359):e2.
