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PubMed Subject Filter Strategies Updated for 2019

PubMed Subject Filter Strategies Updated for 2019. NLM Tech Bull. 2019 Jan-Feb;(426):b6.

February 21, 2019 [posted]

PubMed subject filter strategies are reviewed each year to determine if modifications are necessary. Modifications may include revisions due to changes in Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) vocabulary or MEDLINE journals, adding or deleting terms, and changing parts of a strategy to optimize retrieval. The following filter strategies were recently revised:


The Systematic Reviews filter strategy was updated in December, 2018. For more information about that change, see PubMed Updates February 2019.