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Designing a Visual Interface for Online Searching.
Lin, Xia – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
"MedLine Search Assistant" is a new interface for MEDLINE searching that improves both search precision and recall by helping the user convert a free text search to a controlled vocabulary-based search in a visual environment. Features of the interface are described, followed by details of the conceptual design and the physical design of…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Medical Research, Medicine
Health Professionals' Attitudes towards Evidence-Based Medicine and the Role of the Information Professional in Exploitation of the Research Evidence.
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Lewis, Ruth A.; Rolinson, Janet; Urquhart, Christine J. – Journal of Information Science, 1998
A survey of 182 doctors, nurses, and allied professionals examined health professionals' awareness of evidence-based medicine (EBM). Results show most health professionals wanted workplace access to resources, that doctors preferred to do their own searching, and that health professionals doubted librarians could find relevant articles, suggesting…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Allied Health Personnel, Attitudes, Information Retrieval