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CMAJ - December 14, 1999JAMC - le 14 decembre 1999

The race of the millennium: CD-ROM versus the textbook

Table 2: Mean time taken to find answers using the electronic and printed versions of 2 common resources
  Mean time, s
Resource CD-ROM Textbook Difference

Harrison's Principles
  of Internal Medicine
648 468 180
The Merck Manual 351 317   34

Total 999 785 214

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