MEDLINE®/PubMed® Data Element Descriptions Available

Detailed descriptions of the major fields in the MEDLINE display format for PubMed MEDLINE records are in a new document entitled MEDLINE® /PubMed® Data Element Descriptions, available at //www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/mms/medlineelements.html. This document may be useful to anyone seeking information regarding the data in MEDLINE/PubMed records. The document reflects the 2005 fields, and will be maintained and updated as the data changes. Some of the fields on this list are searchable in PubMed. For searching instructions or more information, see the Search Field Descriptions and Tags section of PubMed Help.

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