Preliminary comparison of three search engines for point of care access to MEDLINE citations.
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.
Hauser
Susan E
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National Library of Medicine, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Demner-Fushman
Dina
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Ford
Glenn M
GM
Jacobs
Joshua L
JL
Thoma
George
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D034201:Computers, Handheld; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D007396:Internship and Residency; D016239:MEDLINE; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems