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ArticleAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium2006

askMEDLINE: a report on a year-long experience.

Paul Fontelo, Fang Liu, Michael Ackerman, Connie M Schardt, Sheri A Keitz

Abstract readEvaluation Study
In one paragraph

Article in AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. A systematic review of healthcare applications for smartphones.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2012
    Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. PubMed and beyond: a survey of web tools for searching biomedical literature.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2011
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Paul FonteloOffice of High Performance Computing and Communications, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
Fang Liu
Michael Ackerman
Connie M Schardt
Sheri A Keitz

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

askMEDLINE is a free-text, natural language search tool for MEDLINE/PubMed. Since its introduction a year ago, more than 15,000 queries have been received, mostly in the form of questions or complex phrases. Questions on therapy were the most searched. We review our yearlong experience, an updated evaluation using 'gold standard' questions selected by EBM experts and discuss added features.

Indexed as

MEDLINENatural Language ProcessingAlgorithmsInformation Storage and RetrievalPubMedUser-Computer Interface

Identifiers

PMID17238542
PMCPMC1839379

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.