Effective application of knowledge management in evidence-based Chinese medicine: A case study

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 393-398

  Yang, Angela Weihong ^a   Allan, Garry ^a   Li, Chun Guang ^a   Xue, Charlie Changli ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chinese medicine portal; Codification strategy; Database; Evidence based medicine

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CHINESE HERB; CHINESE MEDICINE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 68849089443     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nem124     Document Type: Article

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