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Peer reviewedPollitt, Steven – Information Processing and Management, 1987
Describes CANSEARCH, an intermediary computer system incorporating fundamental features of the expert systems approach. Designed to provide access to information on cancer therapy in the MEDLINE database for doctors with no experience in document retrieval, search strategies are explained and menu selection from a touch terminal is illustrated.…
Descriptors: Cancer, Databases, Documentation, Expert Systems
