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Peer reviewedO'Rourke, Alan; Booth, Andrew; Ford, Nigel – Journal of Information Science, 1999
Discusses evidence-based medicine (EBM) and the need for systematic use of databases like MEDLINE with more sophisticated search strategies to optimize the retrieval of relevant papers. Describes an empirical study of hospital libraries that examined requests for information and search strategies using both structured and unstructured forms.…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Databases, Information Needs, Information Retrieval
