Analysis of information needs of users of the Stanford Health Information Network for Education.
OBJECTIVE
To examine the information needs of users of the Stanford Health Information Network for Education (SHINE), an integrated information retrieval (IR) system.


METHODS
A subset of queries from the SHINE log were categorized into one or more of 33 categories.


RESULTS
Drugs and infectious disease accounted for 25% of categorizations, and otherwise the distribution of categorizations was quite broad.


CONCLUSIONS
Attention should be paid to the selection of drug information resources in medical knowledge information retrieval systems. The distribution of query categorizations also suggests that IR systems include a wide range of knowledge resources.
Strasberg
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Department of Medicine, Stanford Medical Informatics, USA.
Hubbs
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PR
Rindfleisch
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TC
Melmon
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D002140:California; D004358:Drug Therapy; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007256:Information Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D020407:Internet; D008503:Medical Staff; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013337:Students, Medical