Quality of pharmacy-specific Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) assignment in pharmacy journals indexed in MEDLINE

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 686-695

  Minguet, Fernando ^a   Salgado, Teresa M ^b   van den Boogerd, Lucienne ^c   Fernandez Llimos, Fernando ^d  

^a Valencian Pharmacy Practice Research Group   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MEDICINES IMED ULISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Evidence based practice; Medical subject headings; Periodicals as topic; Pharmaceutical services; Pharmacists; Pharmacy

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTATION; LIBRARY; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; NOMENCLATURE; PHARMACY; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (U.S.); PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PHARMACY; QUALITY CONTROL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84939574235     PISSN: 15517411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2014.11.004     Document Type: Article

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