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ERIC Number: EJ515106
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8231
The Medical Literature as a Resource for Health Care Practice.
McKibbon, K. Ann; And Others
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v46 n10 p737-42 Dec 1995
Discussion of evidence-based medicine (EBM) focuses on information tools to facilitate the practice of EBM that were developed, evaluated, and made more accessible by the McMaster University (Canada) Faculty of Health Sciences. Highlights include users' guides to medical literature, strategies for improving MEDLINE searches, new journals, and software tools. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Medical Research, Medicine, Online Systems, Scholarly Journals, Search Strategies, User Needs (Information)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Evidence; Health Sciences; McMaster University (Canada); Medical Literature; MEDLINE