The Prevalence and Inaccessibility of Internet References in the Biomedical Literature at the Time of Publication

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 232-234

  Aronsky, Dominik ^a,b   Madani, Sina ^a   Carnevale, Randy J ^a   Duda, Stephany ^a   Feyder, Michael T ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INTERNET; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PUBLICATION;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; INTERNET; LIBRARIES, DIGITAL; PERIODICALS; PUBLISHING; PUBMED;

EID: 33847065030     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2243     Document Type: Article

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