Population groups: Indexing, coverage, and retrieval effectiveness of ethnically related health care issues in health sciences databases

Bulletin of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 386-396

  Efthimiadis, Efthimis N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONLINE SYSTEM;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DECISION TREES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FORECASTING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TERMINOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 0029812002     PISSN: 00257338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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