Preliminary comparison of the Essie and PubMed search engines for answering clinical questions using MD on Tap, a PDA-based program for accessing biomedical literature.

AMIA Annu Symp Proc

National Library of Medicine & Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Published: February 2007

MD on Tap, a PDA application that searches and retrieves biomedical literature, is specifically designed for use by mobile healthcare professionals. With the goal of improving the usability of the application, a preliminary comparison was made of two search engines (PubMed and Essie) to determine which provided most efficient path to the desired clinically-relevant information.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1560730PMC

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