Clinician search behaviors may be influenced by search engine design

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Lau, Annie Y S ^a   Coiera, Enrico ^a   Zrimec, Tatjana ^a   Compton, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinician; Information retrieval; Internet; Search behavior

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; NURSE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHYSICIAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEARCH ENGINE; STATISTICS;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NURSE CLINICIANS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PHYSICIANS; PUBMED; SEARCH ENGINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 77955933069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1396     Document Type: Article

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