Identifying nurse staffing research in Medline: Development and testing of empirically derived search strategies with the PubMed interface

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Simon, Michael ^a   Hausner, Elke ^b   Klaus, Susan F ^a   Dunton, Nancy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN HEALTH CARE IQWIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PUBMED;

EID: 77955787972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-10-76     Document Type: Article

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