The risk of using the Internet as reference resource: A comparative study

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 280-286

  Falagas, Matthew E ^a,b   Karveli, Efthymia A ^a   Tritsaroli, Vassiliki I ^a  

^a ALFA INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AIBS   (Greece)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lost Internet references; Uniform resource locators (URLs); World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

INTERNET REFERENCES; UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS (URLS);

BIOINFORMATICS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; WEB BROWSER;

ARCHIVES; BIBLIOMETRICS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING;

EID: 39749114465     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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