On Doctoring MEDLINE searches, with reference librarian comments, March 2000

The question was

What is the incidence and population specificity of Niemann Pick Disease

1     Niemann-pick disease/ep [Epidemiology]    results=6   
2     limit 1 to (full text available and ebm reviews and english    results=0   
language and review articles)
3     from 1 keep 1-6    results=6   
4     from 1 keep 1-6    results= 6   
5     from 1 keep 1    results= 1   

Reference Librarian comments

That's a reasonable search for this highly specific topic. Good job. Thanks for participating in the assignment. I went to the larger (1966 to present) Medline file and played a little (see below).

For genetics questions, we sometimes use: "Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man," which is a big book in the reference section, and it's "online."

Here's the URL for Niemann-pick, from "OMIM"
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/htbin-post/Omim/dispmim?601015

Medline 1966 to January 2000

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Search History
Results
1
exp *Niemann-pick disease/ep [Epidemiology]
1
2
exp niemann-pick disease/ep [Epidemiology]
13
3
exp Niemann-pick disease/cl [Classification]
70
4
exp niemann-pick disease/pc [Prevention & Control]
2