Health Information for the Public: Consumer Health in PubMed
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Consumer Health Searching in PubMed.
Do your own consumer health searches in PubMed by:
- Entering "jsubsetk" into the search box. Jsubsetk limits the results to consumer health journals.
- A sample search possibility: jsubsetk AND exercise AND diet.
- To limit to articles that are free in full text, add "free full text[sb]" to your search.
Find patient education materials in PubMed
- Go to the Preview Index function in PubMed.
- Use the "All Fields" drop down box to choose "Publication Type".
- Type "patient education" into the query field and hit the "Index" button.
- Highlight patient education and hit the "And" button. Then add your topic of interest to the PubMed query box.
- Sample search: patient education handout [pt] AND heart.
- To limit to articles that are free in full text, add "free full text[sb]" to your search.
