Posted on August 5, 2008 by Sandy Swanson
Cognition Technologies offers a free semantic search engine pulling results from Medline abstracts. They call it Semantic Medline, or Medline.Cognition; it has two URLs, http://www.semanticmedline.com/ and http://medline.cognition.com/ . The help page delineates the proper use of capitalization, quote marks, Boolean, proximity, pattern matching, wildcards, and required vs. optional search words for Cognition searching.
An interesting feature: [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Sandy Swanson
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/), [...]
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Posted on April 1, 2008 by Sandy Swanson
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 [...]
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Posted on December 27, 2007 by Sandy Swanson
Ever wonder why your saved searches / RSS feed searches get a little funny about this time of year?
The latest NLM Technical Bulletin offers some tips for setting up saved searches to weather the year-end MeSH terminology changes. Check it out:
Skill Kit: The Effects of Year End Processing (YEP) on Saved Searches [...]
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