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The Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (in Portuguese), acronym LILACS,[1][2] and previously called Latin American Index Medicus,[3] is an on-line bibliographic database in medicine and health sciences, maintained by the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (also known as BIREME, located in São Paulo, Brazil. Similar to MEDLINE, which was developed by the United States National Library of Medicine, it contains bibliographic references to papers that have been published in a set of scientific and medical journals of the region, and that are not covered by MEDLINE.
The database is structured using the LILACS Methodology, which comprises:
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