The file covers all fields of medicine and health care.
Geographical coverage is worldwide.
Over 8,000 announcements of future meetings are available in the database. The input is obtained by direct contact with over 3,000 conference organizers. In addition to right truncation, left and simultaneous left and right truncation are available in the Basic Index. At least 4 characters need to be used for the length of the stem. When the meeting date is multiple days, e.g., 9-12 June 1998, only the first and last days are searchable.