Searching the 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...

Searching the medical literature using PubMed: a tutorial.

Staying current with advances in medicine is becoming a major challenge for clinicians. Access to updated repositories of medical information and the expertise to locate relevant information within them are becoming necessary clinical skills. PubMed (http://www.pubmedgov) provides free access to the largest biomedical resource available and is updated daily. Clinicians can use this resource to ...

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 ...

Searching for medical Rumpoles.

need is morphing into the patient as perilous object. Ask medical school candidates what they have been reading and the answer will usually be some scientific magazine. Where is the medical equivalent of Rumpole of the Bailey, that famous creation of the late John Mortimer? Rumpole is a wise, unassuming barrister who strives to uphold the tenets of justice. If a fiction writer were to compose a...