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APTA's PubMed^®/MEDLINE^® Search Page

Search PubMed^®/MEDLINE^®.

MEDLINE^® is the largest component of PubMed^®, the National Library of Medicine's (NLM^®) database of biomedical citations and abstracts that is searchable on the Web (http://pubmed.gov) at no cost. The MEDLINE^® database covers from 1966 to the present and is updated on a daily basis. (OLDMEDLINE ^®, a subset of PubMed, contains pre-1966 citations). MEDLINE^® includes more than 14 million citations from more than 4,800 different biomedical journals, including Physical Therapy: Journal of the American Physical Therapy Association. APTA members have free access to Physical Therapy.

Note: MEDLINE^® contains citations only; full-text articles are available from a variety of sources, including article publishers. See "How to Find Information in the Physical Therapy Literature."

PubMed^® Resources

• Need help searching? Take one or more of PubMed's^® Tutorials. These tutorials are a good source for learning about PubMed's research features, including "My NCBI" and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
• FAQ: Can I limit a search to articles that have full text or free full text available?
• FAQ: Can I distribute free full text that I access through LinkOut (the service that links you from PubMed^®to a publisher's web site)?
• Fact sheet: What is the difference between MEDLINE^® and PubMed^®?

Related Links

• Open Door: APTA's Portal to Evidence Based Practice
• Current Research in Physical Therapy (Recently moved to Open Door)
• How to Find Information in the Physical Therapy Literature
• The National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus^® service includes links to additional sources of information such as directories, organizations, databases, and dictionaries.
• For rehabilitation links and resources, visit MedlinePlus^® - Rehabilitation.