Towards improved information retrieval from medical sources

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 51, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 181-195

  Kagolovsky, Y ^a   Freese, D ^a   Miller, M ^a   Walrod, T ^a   Moehr, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evaluation studies; Evidence based medicine; Information storage and retrieval; Medical concept representation; Statistical concept representation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; STATISTICAL CONCEPT REPRESENTATION (SCR);

HEALTH CARE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS;

DATABASES; EVALUATION STUDIES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

EID: 0032143445     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(98)00114-2     Document Type: Article

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