Another fine MeSH: clinical medicine meets information science

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 275-281

  O'Rourke, Alan ^a   Booth, Andrew ^b   Ford, Nigel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL COMPUTING; ONLINE SEARCHING;

COMPUTERIZED BIOMEDICAL DATABASES; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; PATIENT MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0032691558     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016555159902500404     Document Type: Article

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