Journal article
Reasons for the loss of sensitivity and specificity of methodologic MeSH terms and textwords in MEDLINE.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine the reasons for the loss of sensitivity and specificity of methodologic MeSH terms and textwords in MEDLINE for identifying sound clinical studies of the etiology, prognosis, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of disorders in adult general medicine.
DESIGN: Analytic survey of the information retrieval properties of methodologic MeSH terms and textwords selected to detect studies meeting basic methodologic criteria for …
Authors
Wilczynski NL; Walker CJ; McKibbon KA; Haynes RB
Journal
AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, , , pp. 436–440
Publication Date
1995
ISSN
1531-605X