Assessment of preferences for classification detail in medical information: Is uniformity better?

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 465-477

  Lorence, Daniel P ^a   Spink, Amanda ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Coding; Evidence based; Health; Medical; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL COMPUTING; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

MEDICAL INFORMATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 0037408722     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(02)00095-X     Document Type: Article

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