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NIDDK Reference Collection – Basic Search Guide
The NIDDK Reference Collection is a database of thousands of health education materials published since 2000 and produced for patients and health care professionals. The database includes fact sheets, brochures, journal articles, book chapters, and audiovisual materials, and provides a descriptive abstract, keyword indexing, and availability information for each item.
SUBFILES
Users can search the entire database or narrow their search to one of the six subfiles:
Diabetes
Digestive diseases
Endocrine and metabolic diseases
General
Hematologic diseases
Kidney and urologic diseases
The search function ignores common words such as articles (a, an, the), prepositions (at, by, from, in, to, with), and conjunctions (and, at, because, but).
A simple Boolean search using AND, OR, or NOT can be constructed (e.g., noninvasive OR minimally invasive AND glucose monitoring).
ORDER of RESULTS
Search results are displayed in reverse chronological order, showing the publication title, bibliographic information, and abstract for the most recently published items first. Users can click on “Full Record” to see additional information, such as the author, keywords assigned, and availability information, including price. A printer-friendly version of each item is also available.
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