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Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective

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Authors:
  1. William Hersh
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  • Only book in the market that covers searching from a biomedical perspective
  • Written by leading authority in the field

Part of the book series: Health Informatics (HI)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Basic Concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Terms, Models, Resources, and Evaluation

      • William Hersh
      Pages 3-39

    3. Health and Biomedical Information

      • William Hersh
      Pages 41-116

  3. State of the Art

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Content

      • William Hersh
      Pages 119-158

    3. Indexing

      • William Hersh
      Pages 159-197

    4. Retrieval

      • William Hersh
      Pages 199-233

    5. Digital Libraries

      • William Hersh
      Pages 235-259

  4. Research Directions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Evaluation

      • William Hersh
      Pages 263-302

    3. System and User Research

      • William Hersh
      Pages 303-364

    4. Related Topics

      • William Hersh
      Pages 365-408

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 409-486
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About this book

This series is directed to healthcare professionals who are leading the transfor- tion of health care by using information and knowledge to advance the quality of patient care. Launched in 1988 as Computers in Health Care, the series offers a broad range of titles: some are addressed to speci?c professions such as nursing, medicine, and health administration; others to special areas of practice such as trauma and radiology. Still other books in this series focus on interdisciplinary issues, such as the computer-based patient record, electronic health records, and networked healthcare systems. Renamed Health Informatics in 1998 to re?ect the rapid evolution in the discipline now known as health informatics, the series continues to add titles that contribute to the evolution of the ?eld. In this series, eminent experts, serving as editors or authors, offer their accounts of innovation in health informatics. Incre- ingly, these accounts go beyond hardware and software to address the roleof information in in?uencing the transformation of healthcare delivery systems around the world. The series also increasingly focuses on “peopleware” and the organi- tional, behavioral, and societal changes that accompany the diffusion of infor- tion technology in health services environments.

Reviews

From the reviews of the third edition:

"The author traces the background of information retrieval in the health sciences, the most effective methods of retrieval, and research in the field. … The book has two audiences, information specialists and practitioners, and shows both the most effective ways of doing research. … this is a needed update, to bring both information specialists and researchers the latest in the best research techniques." (Mary J. Jarvis, Doody’s Review Service, February, 2009)

“Hersh’s book offers engaging content on a domain specific application of search from an Information Science perspective. This book will no doubt help Computer Science students studying IR realise the importance of capturing user information needs in a field that primarily focuses on system engineering considerations. For more experienced IR readers … this book is essential reading. … I would recommend this book to IR researchers, including those who aren’t working on biomedical IR.” (Nicola Stokes, Information Retrieval, Vol. 13, 2010)

About the author

William Hersh, M.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon.  He also has academic appointments in the Division of General Internal Medicine of the Department of Medicine and in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Hersh is a professor and chief of the division of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research and has developed a course built around the first edition. He has contributed to Shortliffe's Biomedical Informatics in with a chapter on information retrieval.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective

  • Authors: William Hersh

  • Series Title: Health Informatics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78703-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-78702-2Due: 06 November 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-78703-9Published: 19 December 2008

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1917

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-3741

  • Edition Number: 3

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 486

  • Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Health Informatics

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