Architecture for knowledge-based and federated search of online clinical evidence

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Coiera, Enrico ^a   Walther, Martin ^a   Nguyen, Ken ^a   Lovell, Nigel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical decision support systems; Evidence based medicine; Information retrieval; Meta search filters

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONLINE ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEM; STANDARD;

EID: 29144484293     PISSN: 14388871     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.7.5.e52     Document Type: Article

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