ABC of Medical Computing: ONLINE SEARCHING

ABC of medical computing. Computers in general practice--II.

Computerised appointment system. Computerised appointment systems offer great flexibility in making and checking appointments but have to be extremely well written to be more usable than the traditional appointment book at the reception desk. One strength of the book is that it readily allows the receptionist an overview of activity in the practice, whereas computerised systems often show just ...

Online Searching

We consider the problem of searching m branches which, with the exception of a common source s, are disjoint (hereafter called concurrent branches). A searcher, starting at s, must find a given “exit” t whose location, unknown to the searcher, is on one of the m branches. The problem is to find a strategy that minimizes the worst case ratio between the total distance traveled and the length of ...

Designing and Validating a Search Questionnaire for Searching in Online Information Resources Based on Clinical Questions Among Iranian Medical Students

Objective To be up-to-date, the medical community must have the ability to communicate in the electronic environment and search for information resources. The present study aims to develop a questionnaire to assess the attitudes of Iranian medical students towards searching for information resources by formulating clinical questions and evaluate its validly and reliability. Methods This is a d...

subject searching in online cataloging systems

in online catalogs, searching based on subject keywords, comprise a significant percentage of searches. various studies, especially those of us origin, have stated it to be more than 50 percent. due to the importance of subject searching in online cataloging systems for users, much efforts is being exerted on the part of researchers and designers of such cataloging systems to increase its perfo...

Searching the medical literature.