Enhancing retrieval of best evidence for health care from bibliographic databases: Calibration of the hand search of the literature

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue , 2001, Pages 390-393

  Wilczynski, Nancy L ^a   McKibbon, K Ann ^a   Haynes, R Brian ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evidence Based; Medicine; Observer Variation; Reproducibility of Results

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIES; CALIBRATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; MEDICINE; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; EVIDENCE-BASED; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; INTER-RATER RELIABILITIES; MEDICAL PRACTITIONER; OBSERVER VARIATIONS; ONTARIO , CANADA; REPRODUCIBILITIES;

HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77955266157     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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