Finding Current Evidence: Search Strategies and Common Databases

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 413, Issue , 2003, Pages 133-145

  Gillespie, Lesley Diane ^a   Gillespie, William John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FRACTURE; HAND SURGERY; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; MEDLINE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PEDRO; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORT INJURY; SPORTS MEDICINE; ARTICLE; LITERATURE; ORTHOPEDICS; STATISTICS;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MEDLINE; ORTHOPEDICS; REVIEW LITERATURE;

EID: 0041474950     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000079324.41006.dc     Document Type: Conference Paper

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