title: Generating PubMed chemical queries for consumer health literature.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Specialized Information Services, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffery L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Loo
authors.forename: Hua Florence
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Colette
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hochstein
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D019992:Databases as Topic; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D039781:PubMed
chemical_list: D015386:Hazardous Substances