Information Retrieval: a health and biomedical perspectiveReflecting the enormous changes and advancements in the indexing and retrieval of online health information made possible by the Internet, this title book summarizes technical state-of-the-art research results in health/medical information retrieval. Coupled with the growth of the World Wide Web, the topic of information retrieval has had a tremendous impact on consumer health information and genomics. |
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Information Retrieval: a health and biomedical perspective William R. Hersh No preview available - 2003 |
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algorithm analysis answer approach assessed Association automated bibliographic bibliographic databases Boolean catalogs Chapter citations clinical narrative clinicians concepts contain controlled vocabulary databases described developed disease documents retrieved drug electronic evaluation evidence-based medicine example findings focused full-text guidelines health information healthcare Hypertension ical identify indexing terms information needs interactive interface Internet Journal Library of Medicine literature measures Medical Informatics MEDLINE MEDLINEplus MeSH terms meta-analysis metadata Metathesaurus natural language Netscape noted noun Okapi output parsing patient performance phrases physicians problem publication bias published PubMed query query expansion questions recall and precision relevance feedback relevant documents reports scientific search engines searchers semantic Semantic Web SNOMED Source specific statistical studies Table test collections therapy tion topic TREC UMLS UMLS Metathesaurus weighting words