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PediLine: A Pediatric-Specific MEDLINE Database
2 CD-ROMs with documentation, Knowledge Finder Version 3.33, January 1996. Available from Aries Systems Corp, North Andover, Mass. Price: annual update (no current year disk), $325; quarterly update, $545; monthly update, $740. Non–US subscribers must add $50 as National Library of Medicine use fee.
Minimal recommended hardware configuration: Windows, 486 or later IBM personal computer or compatible computer, 10-MB hard disk space, 8-MB RAM, SVGA monitor, and Windows version 3.1 or higher; Macintosh, 68030 equipped computer, at least 10-MB available hard disk space, 8-MB RAM, and system version 7.0 or later.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1998;152:296.
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Using the entire MEDLINE database efficiently requires multiple CD drives; therefore, it is beyond the reach of most physicians and departments. Pediatricians running a search on the unabridged MEDLINE database may get hundreds of references, most of them irrelevant to their specific domain. When we cross matched the terms "asthma" and "budesonide," the unabridged MEDLINE database yielded 331 matches, most of them irrelevant to the pediatric field. To overcome these problems, Aries Systems Corp, North Andover, Mass, is offering a more specific and lower-cost database, PediLine, that specializes in pediatrics. Performing the same search as before on the PediLine database, 50 matches were retrieved, all relevant to the pediatrician.
The PediLine database includes 2 CDs. Volume 1 contains an indexed archive of all references from approximately 180 journals from the following sources: pediatric journals, journals from pediatric-related fields (such as nutrition, perinatology, and infectious diseases), leading nonpediatric journals (such as . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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