Clinical Decision Velocity is Increased when Meta-search Filters Enhance an Evidence Retrieval System

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 638-646

  Coiera, Enrico ^a   Westbrook, Johanna I ^b   Rogers, Kris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LABORATORY TEST; LIBRARY; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEARCH ENGINE; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; SEARCH ENGINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 49849083166     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2765     Document Type: Article

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