Making PubMed searching simple: Learning to retrieve medical literature through interactive problem solving

Oncologist

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 243-251

  Vincent, Beatriz ^a   Vincent, Maurice ^b   Ferreira, Carlos Gil ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Education, medical; Evidence based medicine; Internet; Medical subject headings; MEDLINE; MeSH; PubMed

Indexed keywords

DOXORUBICIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER RECURRENCE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DATA BASE; EMBASE; INTERNET; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; ONLINE SYSTEM; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION;

HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; PERIODICALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBMED;

EID: 33645075729     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: 1549490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.11-3-243     Document Type: Article

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