Look at the work of Barbara Wildemuth and others.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.103.177
Connie
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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
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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
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