Comparison of pubmed and google scholar literature searches

Respiratory Care

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 578-583

  Anders, Michael E ^a   Evans, Dennis P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Google scholar; Information storage and retrieval; Pubmed

Indexed keywords

RIBAVIRIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASTHMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; NONINVASIVE VENTILATION; RESPIRATORY CARE; SEARCH ENGINE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNET; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBMED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 77954599564     PISSN: 00201324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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