A. Arbor appears as an author now and then; to the best of my knowledge, she has only one valid cite, PMID 12748882.  I spoke with her co-author, JT Hoff; the article was actually printed with both names, but when the publisher realized the problem, it was reprinted, 5 months later (PMID 14505097)

There are currently a handful of cites for A Arbor in Medline and in Web of Science, as well as other files, but if you pull up the papers, you'll find they're mistakes; Ann Arbor is always the institutional address, except in the one case I noted.

Pam


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Authors can get interesting too - There have been a number of citations
to D. Phil 

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It is funny (as well as disturbing).  Over my years of searching I have
run into a number of entries with mistakes, most often in the author's
names but occasionally something funny.  I usually take time to notify
NLM and they will fix it (I go back and check).   Here is the
citation--as I ran across it a few years ago and have copied from the
email I sent to NLM:

McMichael AJ, Spirtas R, Gamble JF, Tousey PM. 
Mortality among rupper workers: Relationship to specific jobs.
J Occup Med. 1976 Mar;18(3):178-85. 
PMID: 1255279

If you check now, the citation correctly says "rubber".


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Forwarded with permission...


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Hello All,



I know it's nowhere near Friday, but I wasn't in the office last Friday
and I thought this might entertain (or horrify) you.



I was asked to carry out a search on the use of bioelectrical impedance
on dialysis patients.  I'm sure you're aware that bioelectrical
impedance involves sticking electrodes on various parts of a patient
(that's the important bit for what follows).  I had successfully
searched Embase for 'impedance' and 'renal replacement therapy',
limiting the results to English and humans.  However, when I checked my
results against the reference list for a review article I had, I
realised I was missing what seemed to be an important article.  I found
the article and had a root around to see where the mistake lay.  I was
surprised to find one of the subject headings was 'Cattle', especially
as the article was most definitely about human patients.  Thinking there
may be some animal studies quoted I read the article and checked its
references but there wasn't the slightest mention of bovine studies.
However, there are 25 mentions of the word 'calf'  - but most definitely
referring to the lower leg and not brown-eyed baby cows!



Has anyone else come across similar examples of mistaken/individualised
indexing?





Regards,



Paul



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Therapist Department of Health Informatics, Louis Calder Memorial
Library at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

They do random drug checks; why don't they do random hand swabs to see
which unhygienic healthcare providers are killing their patients by
spreading deadly infection?

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University of Wyoming, MLS, AHIP

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