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. 1999:965–969.

Analysis of information needs of users of the Stanford Health Information Network for Education.

H R Strasberg 1, P R Hubbs 1, T C Rindfleisch 1, K L Melmon 1
PMCID: PMC2232749  PMID: 10566504

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.

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