Optimal Search Filters for Renal Information in EMBASE

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 14-22

  Iansavichus, Arthur V ^a   Haynes, R Brian ^b   Shariff, Salimah Z ^a   Weir, Matthew ^a   Wilczynski, Nancy L ^b   McKibbon, Ann ^b   Rehman, Faisal ^a   Garg, Amit X ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

EMBASE; information retrieval; Kidney diseases; knowledge translation; medical informatics; nephrology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EMBASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PROTEINURIA; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SCREENING TEST;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; KIDNEY; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 77953686892     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2009.11.026     Document Type: Article

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