The structure of medical informatics journal literature

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 448-466

  Morris, Theodore A ^a   McCain, Katherine W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031665091     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050448     Document Type: Article

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