Generating PubMed chemical queries for consumer health literature.
Two popular NLM resources that provide information for consumers about chemicals and their safety are the Household Products Database and Haz-Map. Search queries to PubMed via web links were generated from these databases. The query retrieves consumer health-oriented literature about adverse effects of chemicals. The retrieval was limited to a manageable set of 20 to 60 citations, achieved by successively applying increasing limits to the search until the desired number of references was reached.
Loo
Jeffery L
JL
Specialized Information Services, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Chang
Hua Florence
HF
Hochstein
Colette
C
Sun
Ying
Y
D019992:Databases as Topic; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D039781:PubMed
D015386:Hazardous Substances