When making clinical decisions, practitioners need to rely on the most relevant evidence available. However, accessing a vast body of medical evidence and confronting the issue of information overload, can be challenging and time consuming. This paper proposes an effective summarizer for medical evidence by utilizing both UMLS and WordNet. Given a clinical query and a set of relevant abstracts,...

during the 3 years before ECT were impaired, but memories acquired before that time were not affected. The results therefore appear to confirm the hypothesis, originally formulatedby Ribot (12), that the susceptibility of a memory to disruption is inversely proportional to its age. The validity of this conclusion depends, of course, on how well the remote memory test satisfies the requirements ...

This chapter outlines the principles of critical appraisal for different types of research study. It introduces generic schemes and discipline-specific checklists for use with information research. Outputs from the Critical Skills Training in Appraisal for Librarians (CriSTAL) programme are introduced and reviewed. Teaching scenarios from the CriSTAL programme are presented. Resources to assist...

Many scientific models are non-representational in that they refer to merely possible processes, background conditions and results. The paper shows how such nonrepresentational models can be appraised, beyond the weak role that they might play as heuristic tools. Using conceptual distinctions from the discussion of how-possibly explanations, six types of models are distinguished by their modal ...