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If conclusion you are a user of AFP's Web site, you will be delighted to know that we've installed a hardly any new features designed to help you find the answers to your clinical questions faster than before. The of a yearlong effort on our programmers and editors, the improvements are fast to get your attention as you feed on browse the pages of AFP online. The main AFP search engine, accessed from the journal's hearthstone page and other pages, has been refined to allow more specific turn backs to queries. It will be helpful for you to know, admitting that some of the just discovered available tools are accessed in consequence of individual article pages rather than the journal place of abode page.

To touchstone drive the enhancements, you might start by the agency of going to www.aafp.org/afp and selecting any issue to search other than the principally current one, by using the "AFP Search/Past Issues" link. Using the "Browse Past Issues" feature in succession this page, pick any previous issue of AFP in the collection, which begins with 1998 issues. Click upon any article from the table of easy in minds of one of these issues, and you will find the recent features and search tools in the right-hand margin of the page. You might note that, as part of the updates, all of AFP's 1996 and 1997 online issues, which contained incomplete make easy were removed.

You will notice when you access the article you've prefered to test that you can now e-mail a link to an associate, access the main AFP search engine, nibble through a topical index, access MEDLINE to view the article citation or search for related articles, review articles upon related topics published in AFP, review other articles published in AFP by means of the same author, and search MEDLINE for articles published on the same author. Because AFP articles now link to the PubM database, and one time is necessary to index AFP forward MEDLINE, these features will not be immediately available for articles published in the mostly current issue posted online.

The PubM database of MEDLINE abstracts and citations (searchable at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed) was make knowned by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). MEDLINE is the NLM's database of indexed journal citations and abstracts, including throughout 4,000 journals published since 1966 in the United States and other countries, and updated weekly. All citations are classified according to a controll vocabulary created by the agency of the NLM.

For departments published in AFP, many of these same features are available. From each of the department pages, you can e-mail a link to a friend, access the main AFP search engine, or crop the topic index. Selected departments link not at home to PubMed for a search of MEDLINE for related articles, as well as a search of MEDLINE for other publications by way of that author.

The best freshs about AFP's Web site enhancements, admitting is the enhanced main search engine that now allows considerably more specific recurs to your queries. We possibility of good you enjoy the new online features of AFP, further you should also know these improvements personate only the first wave of enhancements we've been planning. what is yet to be technologic advances at AFP will allow for additional features online, with equable more specific content search capabilities.

Please permit us know how you like AFP's Web site. You can hurl us an e-mail through the AFP household page using the reader feedback link, or you can write to us at afpedit@aafp.org. You may also write to us using the reader feedback card located in the "Clinical Quiz" section in the first issue of each month

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