Not Published, Not Indexed: Issues in Generating and Finding Hospice and Palliative Care Literature
Author(s) -
Jennifer Tieman,
Amy P. Abernethy,
David C. Currow
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of palliative medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.986
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1096-6218
pISSN - 1557-7740
DOI - 10.1089/jpm.2009.0273
Subject(s) - palliative care , medicine , medline , grey literature , search engine indexing , listing (finance) , bibliographic database , index (typography) , library science , family medicine , database , information retrieval , world wide web , computer science , nursing , political science , law , finance , economics
Accessing new knowledge as the evidence base for hospice and palliative care grows has specific challenges for the discipline. This study aimed to describe conversion rates of palliative and hospice care conference abstracts to journal articles and to highlight that some palliative care literature may not be retrievable because it is not indexed on bibliographic databases.
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