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ArticleYearbook of medical informatics2008

Rising expectations: access to biomedical information.

D A B Lindberg, B L Humphreys

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Article in Yearbook of medical informatics, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Identifying Psychiatric Comorbidities for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in the Biomedical Literature and Electronic Health Record.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2017
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  5. The Renewed Promise of Medical Informatics.Yearbook of medical informatics · 2016
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  6. Preface - Access to Knowledge Revisited.Yearbook of medical informatics · 2016
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  8. Outreach impact study: the case of the Greater Midwest Region.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2011
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

D A B LindbergNational Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. lindberg@nlm.nih.gov
B L Humphreys

Funding

Intramural NIH HHS Z99 LM999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo provide an overview of the expansion in public access to electronic biomedical information over the past two decades, with an emphasis on developments to which the U.S. National Library of Medicine contributed.

methodsReview of the increasingly broad spectrum of web-accessible genomic data, biomedical literature, consumer health information, clinical trials data, and images.

resultsThe amount of publicly available electronic biomedical information has increased dramatically over the past twenty years. Rising expectations regarding access to biomedical information were stimulated by the spread of the Internet, the World Wide Web, advanced searching and linking techniques. These informatics advances simplified and improved access to electronic information and reduced costs, which enabled inter-organizational collaborations to build and maintain large international information resources and also aided outreach and education efforts The demonstrated benefits of free access to electronic biomedical information encouraged the development of public policies that further increase the amount of information available.

conclusionsContinuing rapid growth of publicly accessible electronic biomedical information presents tremendous opportunities and challenges, including the need to ensure uninterrupted access during disasters or emergencies and to manage digital resources so they remain available for future generations.

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Access to InformationClinical Trials as TopicConsumer Health InformationBiomedical ResearchHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHuman Genome ProjectInformation ServicesMedical Records Systems, ComputerizedNational Library of Medicine (U.S.)PublishingPubMedSoftwareUnited StatesAccess to informationclinical trialsconsumer health informationdigital librariesgenetic databases

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PMID18587496
PMCPMC2441483

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