ONLINE SEARCHING OF MEDICAL LITERATURE

Searching the medical literature.

Searching the medical literature.

Medical literature searches have become more complex because of the increasing amount of published material and the multiple available databases indexing those publications. Although newly graduated physicians may have received some training in literature searching as part of a medical school curriculum, most clinicians have received no formal training in this skill. In today's world of evidenc...

Linking Specialized Online Medical Discussions to Online Medical Literature

The medical web comprises both medical communities engaged in discussions about specialized topics and a vast array of medical articles available through web-based databases. In this paper we present a knowledge linkage strategy that links online specialized medical discussions with corresponding online medical articles. The idea is to link the experiential knowledge generated in online medical...

Leveraging User Query Sessions to Improve Searching of Medical Literature

Published reports about searching medical literature do not refer to leveraging the query context, as expressed by previous queries in a session. We aimed to assess novel strategies for context-aware searching, hypothesizing that this would be better than baseline. Building upon methods using term frequency-inverse document frequency, we added extensions such as a function incorporating search ...

A student's guide to searching the literature using online databases

A method is described to empower students to efficiently perform general and specific literature searches using online resources. The method was tested on undergraduate and graduate students with varying backgrounds in scientific literature. Students involved in this study showed marked improvement in their awareness of how and where to find accurate scientific information. © 2009 American Asso...