Information retrieval in MEDLINE®: Searching for literature about critical care

Pestana, Olívia Information retrieval in MEDLINE®: Searching for literature about critical care., 2008 . In 17th annual BOBCATSSS symposium (Bobcatsss 2009), Porto (Portugal), 28-30 January 2009. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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More than ever, update of knowledge and decision making in health care are based on the use of recent scientific information. The effects of the information society’s technological transformation are visible in the most frequent options of clinicians, being common the use of databases, in order to keep pace with the rapid growth of scientific publications. The most frequently used database is MEDLINE. Thus, in order to understand its functioning, especially related to subject searching, the way information is represented and the possible forms of retrieval will be analyzed. In this context, a study carried out to get update information about subject information retrieval will be presented in the detail. The results are interpreted based on recognized effectiveness measures of evaluating information systems.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: MEDLINE, information retrieval, critical care
Subjects: I. Information treatment for information services > ID. Knowledge representation.
B. Information use and sociology of information
L. Information technology and library technology
Depositing user: 2009 Bobcatsss
Date deposited: 02 Apr 2009
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:14
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/12954

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