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A PILOT STUDY TO EXAMINE THE COMPARATIVE USEFULNESS OF THE IOWA DRUG INFORMATION SERVICE (IDIS) AND MEDLINE IN MEETING THE DEMANDS OF A PHARMACY‐BASED DRUG‐INFORMATION SERVICE *
Author(s) -
Milne Angela
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.622
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2710
pISSN - 0269-4727
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2710.1977.tb00093.x
Subject(s) - service (business) , pharmacy , medline , vocabulary , information system , drug , computer science , medicine , business , family medicine , pharmacology , engineering , marketing , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy , electrical engineering
Summary This study has attempted to compare the performances of the Iowa Drug Information Service (IDIS) and MEDLINE with respect to their ability to provide relevant information in response to specific requests for information received by Drug Information Centres. Measures of precision and relative recall have been calculated for both systems. The availability of the references retrieved, the suitability of the entry vocabulary, ease of use of the services, relative cost factors and timeliness of the services are discussed. The reasons for the failure of one system to retrieve references found by the other was investigated and an attempt made to assess the importance of the factors involved.