Improving information retrieval using medical subject headings concepts: A test case on rare and chronic diseases

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 176-183

  Darmoni, Stéfan J ^a   Soualmia, Lina F ^b   Letord, Catherine ^a   Jaulent, Marie Christine ^c   Griffon, Nicolas ^a   Thirion, Benoît ^a   Névéol, Aurélie ^d  

^a ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; DOCUMENTATION; FRANCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; NOMENCLATURE; QUALITY CONTROL; RARE DISEASE; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FRANCE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RARE DISEASES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84865808268     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: 15589439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.100.3.007     Document Type: Article

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