Searching for Clinical Prediction Rules in MEDLINE

Searching for clinical prediction rules in MEDLINE.

OBJECTIVES Clinical prediction rules have been advocated as a possible mechanism to enhance clinical judgment in diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic assessment. Despite renewed interest in the their use, inconsistent terminology makes them difficult to index and retrieve by computerized search systems. No validated approaches to locating clinical prediction rules appear in the literature. T...

Optimized retrieval of primary care clinical prediction rules from MEDLINE to establish a Web-based register.

OBJECTIVES Identifying clinical prediction rules (CPRs) for primary care from electronic databases is difficult. This study aims to identify a search filter to optimize retrieval of these to establish a register of CPRs for the Cochrane Primary Health Care field. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Thirty primary care journals were manually searched for CPRs. This was compared with electronic search fil...

Parallel Architectures for Searching the MEDLINE Database

The MEDLINE database, an online archival of medical research publications, is extensively used by physicians, clinicians and other medical researchers for literature search and information on prior case studies. The size of MEDLINE database is over 40GB. The PubMed is an implementation of MEDLINE and provides basic search capabilities freely via the Internet. The initial search often tends to r...

Clinical prediction rules.

In many ways much of the art of medicine boils down to playing the percentages and predicting outcomes. For example, when clinicians take a history from a patient they ask the questions that they think are the most likely to provide them with the information they need to make a diagnosis. They might then order the tests that they think are the most likely to support or refute their various diff...

Clinical prediction rules.