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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gradie, Patrick R ^a   Litster, Megan ^a   Thomas, Rinu ^b   Vyas, Jay ^b   Schiller, Martin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; READING; SCIENCE;

ALGORITHMS; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; READING; SCIENCE; SOFTWARE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 78951486307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-11-4     Document Type: Article

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