Availability of renal literature in six bibliographic databases

Clinical Kidney Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 610-617

  Shariff, Salimah Z ^a,b   Sontrop, Jessica M ^a,b   Iansavichus, Arthur V ^a   Haynes, R Brian ^c   Weir, Matthew A ^a,b   Gandhi, Sonja ^a,b   Cuerden, Meaghan S ^a   Garg, Amit X ^a,b,c  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

bibliographic databases; content coverage; evidence based medicine; information storage and retrieval; literature searching; renal informatics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CITATION ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMBASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

EID: 84870530106     PISSN: 20488505     EISSN: 20488513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ckj/sfs152     Document Type: Article

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