Computer searching of the medical literature. An evaluation of MEDLINE searching systems.

PubWeight™: 3.45‹?› | Rank: Top 1%

🔗 View Article (PMID 3901853)

Published in Ann Intern Med on November 01, 1985

Authors

R B Haynes, K A McKibbon, C J Walker, J Mousseau, L M Baker, D Fitzgerald, G Guyatt, G R Norman

Articles citing this

User attitudes toward end-user literature searching. Bull Med Libr Assoc (1988) 2.24

An evaluation of four end-user systems for searching MEDLINE. Bull Med Libr Assoc (1988) 2.08

Colorectal neoplasia in juvenile polyposis or juvenile polyps. Arch Dis Child (1991) 1.81

An evaluation of four end-user systems for searching MEDLINE. Bull Med Libr Assoc (1988) 1.69

How to choose the online medical database that's right for you. CMAJ (1986) 1.67

Online access to MEDLINE in clinical settings: impact of user fees. Bull Med Libr Assoc (1991) 1.61

Information retrieved from a database and the augmentation of personal knowledge. J Am Med Inform Assoc (1995) 1.42

Comparison of search strategies on CD Plus/MEDLINE. CMAJ (1991) 1.39

Performances of 27 MEDLINE systems tested by searches with clinical questions. J Am Med Inform Assoc (1995) 1.10

Extending the capabilities of diagnostic decision support programs through links to bibliographic searching: addition of "canned MeSH logic" to the Quick Medical Reference (QMR) program for use with Grateful Med. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care (1991) 0.90

Student use of MEDLINE: an analysis of the effects of experience and searching knowledge and skills on retrieval in a clinical situation. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care (1992) 0.89

Performance appraisal of online MEDLINE access routes. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care (1992) 0.88

The computer, CME and the family physician. CMAJ (1991) 0.83

Computer literature searching for busy clinicians. Can Fam Physician (1988) 0.82

Critique of an evaluation of software for searching MEDLINE. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care (1993) 0.75

The microcomputer as a tool for literature searches. Can Fam Physician (1986) 0.75

Recording and evaluating end-user searches on a personal computer. Bull Med Libr Assoc (1989) 0.75

Using a full-text data base in a community hospital. Can Fam Physician (1989) 0.75

Journal notes. Bull Med Libr Assoc (1986) 0.75

Articles by these authors

Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. BMJ (1996) 66.70

Changing physician performance. A systematic review of the effect of continuing medical education strategies. JAMA (1995) 26.76

No magic bullets: a systematic review of 102 trials of interventions to improve professional practice. CMAJ (1995) 22.08

Evidence for the effectiveness of CME. A review of 50 randomized controlled trials. JAMA (1992) 20.08

Developing optimal search strategies for detecting clinically sound studies in MEDLINE. J Am Med Inform Assoc (1995) 18.63

Beneficial effect of carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients with high-grade carotid stenosis. N Engl J Med (1991) 18.33

Effects of computer-based clinical decision support systems on physician performance and patient outcomes: a systematic review. JAMA (1998) 18.02

Effects of computer-based clinical decision support systems on clinician performance and patient outcome. A critical appraisal of research. Ann Intern Med (1994) 17.27

Online access to MEDLINE in clinical settings. A study of use and usefulness. Ann Intern Med (1990) 14.27

A controlled trial of teaching critical appraisal of the clinical literature to medical students. JAMA (1987) 14.20

A performance and failure analysis of SAPHIRE with a MEDLINE test collection. J Am Med Inform Assoc (1995) 13.03

Benefit of carotid endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic moderate or severe stenosis. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Collaborators. N Engl J Med (1998) 11.27

Systematic reviews: synthesis of best evidence for clinical decisions. Ann Intern Med (1997) 9.94

A methodological framework for assessing health indices. J Chronic Dis (1985) 9.76

Increased absenteeism from work after detection and labeling of hypertensive patients. N Engl J Med (1978) 9.29

Measuring change over time: assessing the usefulness of evaluative instruments. J Chronic Dis (1987) 9.25

Users' guides to the medical literature. III. How to use an article about a diagnostic test. A. Are the results of the study valid? Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA (1994) 7.85

Effect of problem-based, self-directed undergraduate education on life-long learning. CMAJ (1993) 7.73

How to keep up with the medical literature: V. Access by personal computer to the medical literature. Ann Intern Med (1986) 7.36

A cognitive perspective on medical expertise: theory and implication. Acad Med (1990) 7.34

Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2007) 7.25

Randomised clinical trial of strategies for improving medication compliance in primary hypertension. Lancet (1975) 7.22

Academic medicine and the pharmaceutical industry: a cautionary tale. CMAJ (1994) 6.98

More informative abstracts of articles describing clinical practice guidelines. Ann Intern Med (1993) 6.54

Report of the Canadian Hypertension Society Consensus Conference: 1. Introduction. CMAJ (1993) 6.20

How good are clinical MEDLINE searches? A comparative study of clinical end-user and librarian searches. Comput Biomed Res (1990) 5.95

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: XXV. Evidence-based medicine: principles for applying the Users' Guides to patient care. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA (2000) 5.91

Provision of preventive care to unannounced standardized patients. CMAJ (1998) 5.78

Systematic review of randomised trials of interventions to assist patients to follow prescriptions for medications. Lancet (1996) 5.41

Problems in the handling of clinical and research evidence by medical practitioners. Arch Intern Med (1983) 5.16

A critical appraisal of the efficacy of continuing medical education. JAMA (1984) 4.95

Improvement of medication compliance in uncontrolled hypertension. Lancet (1976) 4.84

A comparison of sucralfate and ranitidine for the prevention of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients requiring mechanical ventilation. Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. N Engl J Med (1998) 4.81

Searching MEDLINE for randomized clinical trials involving care of the newborn. Pediatrics (1989) 4.79

Recommendations from the Canadian Hypertension Society Consensus Conference on the Pharmacologic Treatment of Hypertension. CMAJ (1989) 4.76

Evaluation of SAPHIRE: an automated approach to indexing and retrieving medical literature. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care (1991) 4.59

Determining optimal therapy--randomized trials in individual patients. N Engl J Med (1986) 4.49

Practitioners of evidence based care. Not all clinicians need to appraise evidence from scratch but all need some skills. BMJ (2000) 4.41

Users' guides to the medical literature. VIII. How to use clinical practice guidelines. A. Are the recommendations valid? The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA (1995) 4.14

Enhancing retrieval of best evidence for health care from bibliographic databases: calibration of the hand search of the literature. Stud Health Technol Inform (2001) 4.08

Clinical decision support systems for the practice of evidence-based medicine. J Am Med Inform Assoc (2001) 3.90

The architecture of diagnostic research. BMJ (2002) 3.82

A taxonomy and critical review of tested strategies for the application of clinical practice recommendations: from "official" to "individual" clinical policy. Am J Prev Med (1988) 3.77

Locating and appraising systematic reviews. Ann Intern Med (1997) 3.76

Measuring physicians' performances by using simulated patients. J Med Educ (1985) 3.75

Designing medical informatics research and library--resource projects to increase what is learned. J Am Med Inform Assoc (1995) 3.74

Seven alternatives to evidence based medicine. BMJ (2000) 3.69

Validity and reliability of a questionnaire for measuring child oral-health-related quality of life. J Dent Res (2002) 3.59

Canadian physicians' attitudes about and preferences regarding clinical practice guidelines. CMAJ (1997) 3.56

The Internet and evidence-based decision-making: a needed synergy for efficient knowledge management in health care. CMAJ (2000) 3.46

Personal health records: a scoping review. J Am Med Inform Assoc (2011) 3.41

Users' guides to the medical literature: XX. Integrating research evidence with the care of the individual patient. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA (2000) 3.33

The North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial : surgical results in 1415 patients. Stroke (1999) 3.31

Low-dose and high-dose acetylsalicylic acid for patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy: a randomised controlled trial. ASA and Carotid Endarterectomy (ACE) Trial Collaborators. Lancet (1999) 3.30

Can simple clinical measurements detect patient noncompliance? Hypertension (1981) 3.29

Planning for the information age: a survey of microcomputer use in a faculty of health sciences. CMAJ (1987) 3.24

Issues in cognitive psychology: implications for professional education. Acad Med (1996) 3.12

Does a mailed continuing education program improve physician performance? Results of a randomized trial in antihypertensive care. JAMA (1986) 3.04

Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2000) 3.04

Development of a disease specific questionnaire to measure health related quality of life in patients with chronic liver disease. Gut (1999) 2.98

The measurement iterative loop: a framework for the critical appraisal of need, benefits and costs of health interventions. J Chronic Dis (1985) 2.96

How to keep up with the medical literature: I. Why try to keep up and how to get started. Ann Intern Med (1986) 2.94

The impact of measuring patient-reported outcomes in clinical practice: a systematic review of the literature. Qual Life Res (2008) 2.81

Computer-aided quality assurance. A critical appraisal. Arch Intern Med (1987) 2.69

A candidate gene approach to searching for low-penetrance breast and prostate cancer genes. Nat Rev Cancer (2005) 2.62

1999 Canadian recommendations for the management of hypertension. Task Force for the Development of the 1999 Canadian Recommendations for the Management of Hypertension. CMAJ (1999) 2.61

The clinical reasoning of randomly selected physicians in general medical practice. Clin Invest Med (1982) 2.56

How was your hospital stay? Patients' reports about their care in Canadian hospitals. CMAJ (1994) 2.48

A study of library use in problem-based and traditional medical curricula. Bull Med Libr Assoc (1993) 2.41

Recommendations from the Canadian Hypertension Society Consensus Conference on Hypertension and Diabetes. CMAJ (1988) 2.36

Local opinion leaders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2000) 2.33

Efficacy and safety of statin treatment for cardiovascular disease: a network meta-analysis of 170,255 patients from 76 randomized trials. QJM (2010) 2.27

A framework for clinical evaluation of diagnostic technologies. CMAJ (1986) 2.26

The rational clinical examination. Is this patient taking the treatment as prescribed? JAMA (1993) 2.23

Basic statistics for clinicians: 3. Assessing the effects of treatment: measures of association. CMAJ (1995) 2.23

Measurement of physician performance by standardized patients. Refining techniques for undetected entry in physicians' offices. Med Care (1985) 2.21

Male circumcision for the prevention of heterosexually acquired HIV infection: a meta-analysis of randomized trials involving 11,050 men. HIV Med (2008) 2.19

Assessment of methodologic search filters in MEDLINE. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care (1993) 2.19

Effects on quality of life with comprehensive rehabilitation after acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol (1991) 2.13

An overview of interventions to improve compliance with appointment keeping for medical services. JAMA (1992) 2.13

Problems encountered by clinical end users of MEDLINE and GRATEFUL MED. Bull Med Libr Assoc (1991) 2.10