Developing a search engine for pharmacotherapeutic information that is not published in biomedical journals

Autor: F, Do Pazo-Oubiña, C, Calvo Pita, F, Puigventós Latorre, L, Periañez-Párraga, P, Ventayol Bosch
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Farmacia hospitalaria : organo oficial de expresion cientifica de la Sociedad Espanola de Farmacia Hospitalaria. 35(5)
ISSN: 2171-8695
Popis: To identify publishers of pharmacotherapeutic information not found in biomedical journals that focuses on evaluating and providing advice on medicines and to develop a search engine to access this information.Compiling web sites that publish information on the rational use of medicines and have no commercial interests. Free-access web sites in Spanish, Galician, Catalan or English. Designing a search engine using the Google "custom search" application.Overall 159 internet addresses were compiled and were classified into 9 labels. We were able to recover the information from the selected sources using a search engine, which is called "AlquimiA" and available from http://www.elcomprimido.com/FARHSD/AlquimiA.htm.The main sources of pharmacotherapeutic information not published in biomedical journals were identified. The search engine is a useful tool for searching and accessing "grey literature" on the internet.
Databáze: OpenAIRE