An Evaluation of Citation Counts, Search Results, and Frequency of Updates in DynaMed® and UpToDate®
Author
Ketterman, Elizabeth; Besaw, Megan E.
Abstract
This study examines two point-of-care products: DynaMed® and UpToDate®. These resources were evaluated based on four criteria: search result counts, search result answers, reference counts, and currency of updates. The results of the study suggest that of the four areas evaluated, two indicate a statistical advantage of one database over the other. DynaMed contained updates that were more current, and UpToDate had a more significant total number of references used in a topic. The other two criteria, of initial search result counts and if there was an exact answer to the clinical question, did not produce a statistically significant difference.
Date
2010
Citation:
APA:
Ketterman, Elizabeth, & Besaw, Megan E.. (January 2010).
An Evaluation of Citation Counts, Search Results, and Frequency of Updates in DynaMed® and UpToDate®.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3504
MLA:
Ketterman, Elizabeth, and Besaw, Megan E..
"An Evaluation of Citation Counts, Search Results, and Frequency of Updates in DynaMed® and UpToDate®". .
. (),
January 2010.
December 01, 2023.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3504.
Chicago:
Ketterman, Elizabeth and Besaw, Megan E.,
"An Evaluation of Citation Counts, Search Results, and Frequency of Updates in DynaMed® and UpToDate®," , no.
(January 2010),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3504 (accessed
December 01, 2023).
AMA:
Ketterman, Elizabeth, Besaw, Megan E..
An Evaluation of Citation Counts, Search Results, and Frequency of Updates in DynaMed® and UpToDate®. .
January 2010;
():
.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3504. Accessed
December 01, 2023.
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