Journal article
Quantitative comparison of pre-explosions and subheadings with methodologic search terms in MEDLINE.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To compare the retrieval characteristics of subheadings with methodologic textwords and MeSH terms in MEDLINE for identifying sound clinical studies on the etiology, prognosis, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disorders in general adult medicine.
DESIGN: Analytic survey of the information retrieval properties of methodologic textwords, single methodologic MeSH terms, pre-explosions and subheadings selected to detect studies …
Authors
Wilczynski NL; Walker CJ; McKibbon KA; Haynes RB
Journal
AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, , , pp. 905–909
Publication Date
1994
ISSN
1531-605X