International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 79, Issue 7 , Pages 515-522 , July 2010

An analysis of clinical queries in an electronic health record search utility

Received 1 October 2009 ,Revised 5 February 2010 ,Accepted 16 March 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2010.03.004

International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 79, Issue 7 , Pages 515-522 , July 2010

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