Grateful Med Version 2.0: an overview for searchers

Grateful Med is a software interface developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for searching several of NLM's databases: MEDLINE, its backfiles to 1966, and CATLINE. It is designed to facilitate access to medical information by health professionals and other end users with limited or no searching experience. This article describes the basic approach and specific searching features of Version 2.0 of the system.