Hi Ben.
Kim Vicente. (1999) Cognitive Work Analysis, especially chapter 8,
notes research on the differences between novice and expert working
styles and information needs.
Roughly, novices are prone to use the linear decision-making we all
teach, while experts work less linearly and with lots of cognitive
shortcuts, such as pattern recognition and satisficing (for discovering
which Herbert Simon won the Nobel in economics).
Jim
James M. Walker, MD, FACP
Chief Health Information Officer
Geisinger Health System
>>> "Djulbegovic, Benjamin" <[log in to unmask]> 7/15/2010 2:45 PM
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Has anyone done some research looking how content-specific expertise
relates to the efficiency of search?
For example, I think I am very good in finding what I am looking for in
my area of expertise, but not so good in the fields about which I am
less knowledgeable. ( This, of course, amounts to paradox and is
self-defeating as the entire point of having reliable search strategies
is to enable people to find information with which they are less
familiar).
ben
Ben Djulbegovic, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Oncology
University of South Florida & H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research
Institute
From: Evidence based health (EBH)
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Becky
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Subject: The new PubMed Clinical Queries Interface
I love the new option to incorporate filters into any PubMed search and
have now set up several. It is a quick way to scope the range of
literature available, although you still need to run the actual filters
for any systematic review type search, especially if you are running
alerts.
As was mentioned by Michael P., Health technology appraisals and
guidelines also incorporate systematic reviews and could be missed when
using too limited a systematic review filter. You can enhance your
preferred systematic review filter to include health technology
assessments by adding the line below. (For comprehensiveness, I still
use the PubMed systematic review filter and augment it with this and
several other strings.)
health technology assessment* [tiab] OR "Technology Assessment,
Biomedical" [mh] OR HTA [tiab] OR HTAs [tiab]
I hadn't thought of "health technology appraisal" before (I just did a
quick search and there were 8 hits, almost all of which would have been
picked up using the above string) but that could also be added:
health technology appraisal* [tiab]
Guidelines are partially incorporated into the PubMed systematic
filter. They could also be searched separately using more precise text
strings (e.g., practice guideline* [tiab] OR "practice parameter* [tiab]
OR CPG [tiab] OR CPGs [tiab]) . A grey literature search for guidelines
is essential, though, as many of them aren't published in peer-reviewed
journals and thus still don't make it into traditional databases.
Becky Skidmore
Medical Research Analyst / Analyste de recherche médicale
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada / La Société
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