Thursday, May 27, 2004
McMaster University Researchers Develop Better Medical Searches -- ResearchBuzz, May 27, 2004: "Researchers at McMaster University have developed a way to find 'relevant and scientifically sound studies' from online medical databases.
The article about their effort is found at http://www.medicalpost.com/mpcontent/article.jsp?content=20040523_111944_5200 . From the article: 'That was achieved by first developing a list of search terms and phrases that would bring up sound studies, which were matched with a hand search of 161 journal titles from Medline. By consulting librarians and Medline experts, among others, the team next tested more than 5,000 search combinations, executing the searches both by hand and computer to ensure the identified papers would be pulled up'..."
The research paper can be found at http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/
The article about their effort is found at http://www.medicalpost.com/mpcontent/article.jsp?content=20040523_111944_5200 . From the article: 'That was achieved by first developing a list of search terms and phrases that would bring up sound studies, which were matched with a hand search of 161 journal titles from Medline. By consulting librarians and Medline experts, among others, the team next tested more than 5,000 search combinations, executing the searches both by hand and computer to ensure the identified papers would be pulled up'..."
The research paper can be found at http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/
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