How to improve your PubMed/MEDLINE searches: 1. background and basic searching

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 479-486

  Fatehi, Farhad ^a,b   Gray, Leonard C ^b   Wootton, Richard ^c,d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA BASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84898647426     PISSN: 1357633X     EISSN: 17581109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357633X13512061     Document Type: Article

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