Morbidity/mortality abstraction--finding suitable articles.

For medical directors, keeping up with the medical literature means not only staying clinically abreast of developments in medicine, but also appraising morbidity and mortality data for their insurance implications. One of the obstacles to morbidity and mortality data analysis, whether formal (mortality abstract preparation) or informal (simply estimating risk or general prognosis), is the absence of tools which facilitate critiquing articles or quickly judging their suitability for such purposes.