Optimal search strategies for identifying sound clinical prediction studies in EMBASE [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Clinical prediction guides assist clinicians by pointing to specific elements of the patient's clinical presentation that should be considered when forming a diagnosis, prognosis or judgment regarding treatment outcome.
A Laupacis+25 more
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Retrieval Feedback in MEDLINE [PDF]
To investigate a new approach for query expansion based on retrieval feedback. The first objective in this study was to examine alternative query-expansion methods within the same retrieval-feedback framework. The three alternatives proposed are: expansion on the MeSH query field alone, expansion on the free-text field alone, and expansion on both the ...
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Science mapping of “Trauma Surgery” by co-word analysis and thematic clustering in MEDLINE
Background: Trauma surgery has an interdisciplinary nature among the surgical specialties, and trauma surgeons are required to identify its related scientific fields to acquire the needed skills in controlling the injuries.
Mohammad Raeeszadeh+2 more
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An Evaluation of Multiple Query Representations for the Relevance Judgments used to Build a Biomedical Test Collection [PDF]
ObjectivesThe purpose of this study is to validate a method that uses multiple queries to create a set of relevance judgments used to indicate which documents are pertinent to each query when forming a biomedical test collection.MethodsThe aspect query ...
Borim Ryu, Jinwook Choi
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Mobile Phone Apps for Quality of Life and Well-Being Assessment in Breast and Prostate Cancer Patients: Systematic Review [PDF]
Background: Mobile phone health apps are increasingly gaining attention in oncological care as potential tools for supporting cancer patients. Although the number of publications and health apps focusing on cancer is increasing, there are still few ...
Dorronzoro Zubiete, Enrique+5 more
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Adherence to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors–recommended gender equity policy in nursing journals listed in MEDLINE or PubMed Central: a descriptive study [PDF]
Purpose The evolving landscape of nursing research emphasizes inclusive representation. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has established guidelines to ensure the fair representation of various demographic variables ...
Eun Jeong Ko, Geum Hee Jeong
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Circadian variation in gastric vagal afferent mechanosensitivity [PDF]
Food intake is coordinated to cellular metabolism by clock gene expression with a master clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus synchronized by light exposure.
Frisby, C.L.+4 more
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Objective Autoimmune rheumatic diseases commonly affect individuals of childbearing age, with historically increased adverse pregnancy outcomes in this group. The advent of disease‐modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) has fostered more suitable conditions for pregnancy; however, this is accompanied by challenges in ensuring safe use in reproductive ...
Athena Chin+4 more
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Background: Several therapies have recently been approved for use in the NHS for pretreated advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma (amRCC), but there is a lack of comparative evidence to guide decisions between them.
Steve J Edwards+7 more
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Automatically linking MEDLINE abstracts to the Gene Ontology [PDF]
Much has been written recently about the need for effective tools and methods for mining the wealth of information present in biomedical literature (Mack and Hehenberger, 2002; Blagosklonny and Pardee, 2001; Rindflesch et al., 2002)—the activity of ...
Cleary, John G., Smith, Tony C.
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