Links to Patient Drug Information are now available in the AbstractPlus display in PubMed. The links, when available, are listed below Related Articles on the right side of the screen. The information comes from MedMaster (TM), a publication of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, written specifically for patient education (and also available on MedlinePlus).
The links are generated using the drug name searches that are expanded based on regular PubMed mapping, e.g., albuterol will map to "albuterol"[MeSH Terms] OR albuterol[Text Word] and the citations retrieved will include a drug link to MedMaster for information about albuterol.
For more information see NLM's Technical Bulletin.
Posted by lstanna at February 15, 2008 12:38 PM to Electronic Resources