A Comparative Evaluation of Full-text, Concept-based, and Context-sensitive Search

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 164-174

  Moskovitch, Robert ^a   Martins, Susana B ^b,c   Behiri, Eytan ^d   Weiss, Aviram ^e   Shahar, Yuval ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d E and C Medical Intelligence Inc   (United States)

^e MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; FULL TEXT DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEARCH ENGINE;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 33847196843     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1953     Document Type: Article

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