EMBASE versus MEDLINE for family medicine searches: Can MEDLINE searches find the forest or a tree?

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 51, Issue JUNE, 2005, Pages 848-849

  Wilkins, Thad ^a   Gillies, Ralph A ^a,b   Davies, Kathy ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b HamesNet Research Network

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EMBASE; FAMILY MEDICINE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUROPE; EVALUATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; EUROPE; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; MEDLINE; NORTH AMERICA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 24944554307     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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