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PubMed Health Drugs & Test Tutorial


Browse PubMed Health data in NIF
For more information, visit the NeuroLex entry for PubMedHeath or the PubMedHealth homepage

 

PubMed Health offers up-to-date information on diseases, conditions, drugs, treatment options, and healthy living, with a special focus on comparative effectiveness research from institutions around the world.

Currently, NIF indexes two data sets from PubMedHealth; 1) PubMedHealth: Drugs & 2) PubMedHealth:Tests.

If your interest is in a particular medication, you can search NIF for that drug. In the example below, we search for clozapine.

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Results for PubMedHealth: Drugs can be found under;

Data Federation > Data Type > Drugs

Within the PubMedHealth: Drugs results set, the following information can be found: Name, Title (which contains questions relating to the proper usage of the drug) and Text (which contains the answer to the question within the Title Column).

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Clicking the drug name will take you to the PubMedHealth page for that medication, providing more related information.

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If your interest is in a particular medical procedure, you can search NIF for that test. In the example below, we search for MRI.

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Results for PubMedHealth: Tests can be found under;

Data Federation > Data Type > Disease

Within the PubMedHealth: Test search results the following information can be found: Test Name, Test Description, Title, (which contains questions related to each medical procedure) and Text (which contains the answer to the questions within the Title Column).

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Clicking the test name will take you to the PubMedHealth page for that procedure, providing more related information.

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