FindZebra: A search engine for rare diseases

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 528-538

  Dragusin, Radu ^a,b   Petcu, Paula ^a,c   Lioma, Christina ^a,b   Larsen, Birger ^d   Jørgensen, Henrik L ^e   Cox, Ingemar J ^a,f   Hansen, Lars Kai ^a   Ingwersen, Peter ^d   Winther, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Findwise   (Denmark)

^d ROYAL SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Denmark)

^e BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation of web search engines; Information retrieval; Rare diseases; Specialised search engine

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION APPROACH; INFORMATION RESOURCE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OPEN SOURCE SEARCHES; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; RARE DISEASE; SCATTERED RESOURCES; SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES;

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; WEBSITES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EVALUATION STUDY; FINDZEBRA; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LOEYS DIETZ SYNDROME; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SEARCH ENGINE; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; STANDARDS; UTILIZATION; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; RARE DISEASES; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 84891650295     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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