Evaluating a federated medical search engine
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Evaluating a federated medical search engine
Background: Federated medical search engines are health information systems that provide a single access point to different types of information. Their efficiency as clinical decision support tools has been demonstrated through numerous evaluations. Despite their rigor, very few of these studies report holistic evaluations of medical search engines and even fewer base their evaluations on exist...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Applied Clinical Informatics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1869-0327
DOI: 10.4338/aci-2014-03-ra-0021