Reviews:

Dr. R. D. Lele

January 2004

I remember reading an article in JAMA 1998 (280:1347) on how physicians use electronic information retrieval systems. According to this systematic review,

“Most searches retrieve only one fourth to one half of the relevant articles on a given topic and once retrieved little is known about how these articles are interpreted or applied. These studies imply that further research and development are needed to improve system utility and performance”

This CD tackles the basic but very important aspect of retrieval. The 500+ links take care of retrieval of very relevant articles on a large number of subjects. The links for free full texts and commonly available journals make for a very high practical usage of information retrieved.

I believe that using this CD, physicians will be able to retrieve more than 70% of relevant literature!

Dr. R.D. Lele
MBBS. DTM&H, MRCP, FRCP, FNAMS Hon DSc.
Hon Director of Nuclear Medicine & RIA, Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre

Author: Computers in Medicine, New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill, 1989.

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