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ArticleMethods of information in medicine2008

Commentaries on "Informatics and medicine: from molecules to populations".

R B Altman, R Balling, J F Brinkley, E Coiera, F Consorti, M A Dhansay, A Geissbuhler, W Hersh, S Y Kwankam, N M Lorenzi and 5 more

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Article in Methods of information in medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Computational reasoning across multiple models.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

R B AltmanStanford University, Chair, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford, CA, USA. russ.altman@stanford.edu
R Balling
J F Brinkley
E Coiera
F Consorti
M A Dhansay
A Geissbuhler
W Hersh
S Y Kwankam
N M Lorenzi
F Martin-Sanchez
G I Mihalas
Y Shahar
K Takabayashi
G Wiederhold

Funding

THE STANFORD PHARMACOGENETICS KNOWLEDGE BASEU01GM061374 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI ALTMAN, RUSS BIAGIO · 2000 to 2009
$24.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS U01 GM061374
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo discuss interdisciplinary research and education in the context of informatics and medicine by commenting on the paper of Kuhn et al. "Informatics and Medicine: From Molecules to Populations".

methodInviting an international group of experts in biomedical and health informatics and related disciplines to comment on this paper. RESULTS AND

conclusionsThe commentaries include a wide range of reasoned arguments and original position statements which, while strongly endorsing the educational needs identified by Kuhn et al., also point out fundamental challenges that are very specific to the unusual combination of scientific, technological, personal and social problems characterizing biomedical informatics. They point to the ultimate objectives of managing difficult human health problems, which are unlikely to yield to technological solutions alone. The psychological, societal, and environmental components of health and disease are emphasized by several of the commentators, setting the stage for further debate and constructive suggestions.

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Medical InformaticsPeer ReviewPublic Health InformaticsResearch

Identifiers

PMID18690363
PMCPMC2724390

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