A Comparison of World Wide Web Resources for Identifying Medical Information

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1165-1172

  Johnson, Pamela T ^a   Chen, Jennifer K ^b   Eng, John ^a   Makary, Martin A ^c   Fishman, Elliot K ^a  

^a Russell H Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

information seeking; medical information; search engine; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDLINE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEARCH ENGINE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOLUNTEER;

DATA COLLECTION; EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET;

EID: 48649109516     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.02.010     Document Type: Article

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