Accessing heterogeneous sources of evidence to answer clinical questions

EA Mendonça, JJ Cimino, SB Johnson… - Journal of biomedical …, 2001 - Elsevier
The large and rapidly growing number of information sources relevant to health care, and
the increasing amounts of new evidence produced by researchers, are improving the access …

Hierarchies of evidence in evidence-based medicine

C Blunt - 2015 - etheses.lse.ac.uk
Hierarchies of evidence are an important and influential tool for appraising evidence in
medicine. In recent years, hierarchies have been formally adopted by organizations …

Nullius in verba: A call for the incorporation of evidence-based practice into the discipline of exercise science

WE Amonette, KL English, KJ Ottenbacher - Sports Medicine, 2010 - Springer
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a concept that was popularized in the early 1990s by
several physicians who recognized that medical practice should be based on the best and …

Automated knowledge extraction from MEDLINE citations.

EA Mendonça, JJ Cimino - Proceedings of the AMIA Symposium, 2000 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As part of preliminary studies for the development of a digital library, we have studied the
possibility of using the co-occurrence of MeSH terms in MEDLINE citations associated with …

Making PubMed searching simple: learning to retrieve medical literature through interactive problem solving

B Vincent, M Vincent, CG Ferreira - The oncologist, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Searching the literature has a direct, beneficial influence on patient care. The amount of
medical scientific information has increased to a great extent, while the development of …

Evidence-based guidelines for managing mucositis

DB McGuire, EB Rubenstein, DE Peterson - Seminars in oncology nursing, 2004 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: To discuss implementation of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for
mucositis. DATA SOURCE: Published articles, book chapters, web sources, clinical …

Knowledge management: how to keep up with the literature

DL Castillo, NS Abraham - Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2008 - Elsevier
With the increasing medical literature, staying current with medical information is becoming
a major challenge for clinicians. To ensure best practice and treatment for patients, clinicians …

Critical care and the world wide web

J Varon, PE Marik - Critical care clinics, 1999 - Elsevier
It has been said that we live in the information age and that the information super highway
passes by each of our doors. These statements, of course, refer to the loosely structured …

HLA-identical sibling peripheral blood progenitor cell transplants (PBPCT)

M Van Hoef - Bone marrow transplantation, 1999 - nature.com
Peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPC) are being investigated as an alternative stem cell
source in allogeneic transplantation. The current paper presents a 'state-of-the-art'review of …

Effect of initial tumor stage on patient follow-up after potentially curative surgery for cutaneous melanoma

FE Johnson, KS Virgo… - International …, 2001 - spandidos-publications.com
The optimal follow-up strategy after completion of therapy for melanoma is not known. We
evaluated the effect of TNM stage on the self-reported surveillance strategies employed by …