The completeness of MEDLINE for papers published and abstracted in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.
The purpose of this paper is to assess whether MEDLINE, a common source for reviewing the medical literature, is complete with regard to referencing papers published and abstracted in The Journal of Emergency Medicine (JEM) over a 10-year period. In that time, 1178 abstracts and 843 original contributions were included in JEM. All papers were reviewed and classified as either a review of subject, case report with review of literature, editorial, or prospective or retrospective original research. Results showed 98.5% of all original work published in JEM and 99.74% of all abstracts referenced in JEM were found in MEDLINE, thus supporting the hypothesis that MEDLINE is a complete and thorough database for current literature.
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University of California, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Diego 92103-8676, USA.
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D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D001319:Authorship; D015982:Bias; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D016239:MEDLINE / Q000592:standards*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing / Q000145:classification; D012107:Research Design