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Error in Publication Type (PT) Field in CANCERLIT®

Error in Publication Type (PT) Field in CANCERLIT®. NLM Technical Bulletin. 1997 Jul–Aug;(297):e1.

July 1997 [posted]

An error in the CANCERLIT Publication Type (PT) field has been recently found for approximately 300 non-MEDLINE (ICDB) records from Entry Months (EM) 9702 through 9706. Please be aware that when you search using values such as Review in the PT field; you may not receive correct retrieval from this small subset within CANCERLIT. The data in the PT field in these ICDB records will be revised and corrected during Year-End Processing.