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ArticleComputer methods and programs in biomedicine2020

A relevance and quality-based ranking algorithm applied to evidence-based medicine.

Jesus Serrano-Guerrero, Francisco P Romero, Jose A Olivas

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Article in Computer methods and programs in biomedicine, 2020. 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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Jesus Serrano-GuerreroDepartment of Technologies and Information Systems, Escuela Sup. Informática, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain. Electronic address: jesus.serrano@uclm.es.
Francisco P RomeroDepartment of Technologies and Information Systems, Escuela Sup. Informática, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain.
Jose A OlivasDepartment of Technologies and Information Systems, Escuela Sup. Informática, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe amount of information available about millions of different subjects is growing every day. This has led to the birth of new search tools specialized in different domains, because classical information retrieval models have trouble dealing with the special characteristics of some of these domains. Evidence-based Medicine is a case of a complex domain where classical information retrieval models can help search engines retrieve documents by considering the presence or absence of terms, but these must be complemented with other specific strategies which allow retrieving and ranking documents including the best current evidence and methodological quality.

objectiveThe goal is to present a ranking algorithm able to select the best documents for clinicians considering aspects related to the relevance and the quality of said documents.

methodsIn order to assess the effectiveness of this proposal, an experimental methodology has been followed by using Medline as a data set and the Cochrane Library as a gold standard.

resultsApplying the evaluation methodology proposed, and after submitting 40 queries on the platform developed, the MAP (Mean Average Precision) obtained was 20.26%.

conclusionsSuccessful results have been achieved with the experiments, improving on other studies, but under different and even more complex circumstances.

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AlgorithmsEvidence-Based MedicineQuality ControlCluster AnalysisInformation Storage and RetrievalMEDLINEClusteringEvidence-based medicineQuality rankingRelevance ranking

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PMID32114416
PMCPMC7114639

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