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ERIC Number: EJ593492
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0165-5515
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Another Fine MeSH: Clinical Medicine Meets Information Science.
O'Rourke, Alan; Booth, Andrew; Ford, Nigel
Journal of Information Science, v25 n4 p275-81 1999
Discusses evidence-based medicine (EBM) and the need for systematic use of databases like MEDLINE with more sophisticated search strategies to optimize the retrieval of relevant papers. Describes an empirical study of hospital libraries that examined requests for information and search strategies using both structured and unstructured forms. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Databases, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Medical Libraries, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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