A comparison of manual and MEDLARS reviews of the literature on consultation-liaison psychiatry.
A systematic manual search for articles related to consultation-liaison psychiatry was compared to a computerized search of the same journals during the same period that was done with the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS). More articles were located with the manual method (94%) than with MEDLARS (65%).
Bareta
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Biometry and Clinical Applications Branch, NIMH, Rockville, MD 20857.
Larson
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Lyons
J S
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Zorc
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D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000592:standards; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008523:MEDLARS / Q000592:standards*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011570:Psychiatry; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D014481:United States