Performance evaluation of unified medical language system®'s synonyms expansion to query PubMed

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Griffon, Nicolas ^a,b   Chebil, Wiem ^a,b,c   Rollin, Laetitia ^b   Kerdelhue, Gaetan ^a,b   Thirion, Benoit ^a,b   Gehanno, Jean François ^b   Darmoni, Stéfan ^a,b  

^a ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; PUBMED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84857465919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-1222376010     Document Type: Article

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