Paramedic literature search filters: Optimised for clinicians and academics

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Olaussen, Alexander ^a,b   Semple, William ^a   Oteir, Alaa ^a,c   Todd, Paula ^a   Williams, Brett ^a,d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Paramedic; Search filter

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85031014968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-017-0544-z     Document Type: Article

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