Preliminary comparison of three search engines for point of care access to MEDLINE citations

Susan E Hauser; Dina Demner-Fushman; Glenn M Ford; Joshua L Jacobs; George Thoma

Preliminary comparison of three search engines for point of care access to MEDLINE citations

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006:2006:945.

Authors

Susan E Hauser¹, Dina Demner-Fushman, Glenn M Ford, Joshua L Jacobs, George Thoma

Affiliation

¹ National Library of Medicine, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA.

PMID: 17238564
PMCID: PMC1839466

Abstract

Medical resident physicians used MD on Tap in real time to search for MEDLINE citations relevant to clinical questions using three search engines: Essie, Entrez and Google, in order of performance.

Publication types

Comparative Study
Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

Computers, Handheld*
Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
Internship and Residency
MEDLINE*
Point-of-Care Systems