Searching the Literature Using Medical Subject Headings versus Text Word with PubMed

@article{Chang2006SearchingTL,  title={Searching the Literature Using Medical Subject Headings versus Text Word with PubMed},  author={Angela A. Chang and Karen M. Heskett and Terence M. Davidson},  journal={The Laryngoscope},  year={2006},  volume={116},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:42510351}}
Investigation of the performance of two search strategies in the retrieval of information from the National Library of Medicine on otolaryngology–head and neck surgery related conditions and diagnoses using PubMed found them to be inadequate.

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