How to get the most from the medical literature: Searching the medical literature effectively: Clinical Research for Nephrologists

Nephrology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 12-19

  Webster, Angela C ^a,b,c   Cross, Nicholas B ^d,e   Mitchell, Ruth ^b   Craig, Jonathan C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d Canterbury District Health Board ^*  (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bibliographic databases; Epidemiology; Evidence based medicine; Information management; Information storage and retrieval; MEDLINE

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA BASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEPHROLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NEPHROLOGY; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 77149135572     PISSN: 13205358     EISSN: 14401797     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2009.01263.x     Document Type: Review

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