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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Garrard, Judith. Health sciences literature review made easy : the matrix method / Judith Garrard. — 3rd ed. p. ; cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7637-7186-7 1. Medical literature—Research—Methodology. 2. Matrix method (Indexing) 3. Medicine— Abstracting and indexing. 4. Information storage and retrieval systems—Medicine. I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Review Literature as Topic. 2. Writing. 3. Abstracting and Indexing as Topic. 4. Information Storage and Retrieval. WZ 345 G238h 2011] R118.6.G37 2011 610.