Comparison of literature searches on quality and costs for health technology assessment using the MEDLINE and EMBASE databases

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 297-303

  Topfer, Leigh Ann ^a   Parada, Antoni ^b   Menon, Devidas ^a   Noorani, Hussein ^b   Perras, Christine ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bibliographic; Databases; EMBASE (Non MeSH); Information Services; MEDLINE

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION;

EID: 0032770966     PISSN: 02664623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0266462399015226     Document Type: Article

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