PubMed EBM searching for handheld devices

Unbound MEDLINE (http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/) provides a clean, simple interface for filtered clinical query searches in PubMed data. Keyword and  “advanced” searching, as well as “browse by topic,” are also available.  While it looks great in a web browser, it was designed with the handheld device in mind.  Unbound MEDLINE is a service of Unbound Medicine (http://www.unboundmedicine.com/), [...]

Following Computers in Libraries online

davidrothman.net offers a number of feeds making it easy to follow CIL 2008 – through blogs, conference wiki feeds, Technorati, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, SlideShare, del.icio.us — and even a “SuperFeed” that combines them all. Take a look: How to: Follow CIL 2008 online via RSS

Unanswered Questions, part 2

The second research article is part of series published by Ely et al.:
Ely JW; Osheroff JA; Maviglia SM; Rosenbaum ME: Patient-care questions that physicians are unable to answer. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2007 Jul-Aug;14(4):407-14. Epub 2007 Apr 25 . PMID 17460122
This is a follow-up to a previous study in which the investigators had observed [...]

Unanswered Questions

I’ve been reading a couple of research articles about unanswered (or unanswerable) questions that arise during physicians’ treatment of patients. I’ll address them in separate posts.
Here’s a link to a classical music piece while we ponder this issue: Charles Ives’ The Unanswered Question
Norlin C; Sharp AL; Firth SD: Unanswered questions prompted during pediatric primary [...]