Glomerular disease search filters for Pubmed, Ovid Medline, and Embase: A development and validation study

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hildebrand, Ainslie M ^a   Iansavichus, Arthur V ^a   Lee, Christopher Wc ^a   Haynes, R Brian ^b   Wilczynski, Nancy L ^b   McKibbon, K Ann ^b   Hladunewich, Michelle A ^c   Clark, William F ^a   Cattran, Daniel C ^c   Garg, Amit X ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embase; Glomerular diseases; Glomerulopathy; Information retrieval; Medical Informatics; Medline

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KIDNEY DISEASE; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; KIDNEY DISEASES; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; PUBMED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84861821112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-49     Document Type: Article

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