title: Analysis of information needs of users of the Stanford Health Information Network for Education.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Stanford Medical Informatics, USA.
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Strasberg
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Hubbs
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Rindfleisch
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Melmon
mesh_terms: 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