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Discovering Clinical Evidence For Evidence-Based Medicine

In: Knowledge Management Nurturing Culture, Innovation, and Technology

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  • YUNAN CHEN

    (College of Information Science & Technology, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA)

  • CHAOMAI CHEN

    (College of Information Science & Technology, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA)

Abstract

The rapid growth of the medical literature has increased the challenge of finding information relevant to specific clinical questions. There is an urgent need for tools to assist the discovery of best evidence. In this paper we described a knowledge domain visualization based approach to the searching of best clinical evidence in medical literature. We applied the citation-based approach to two case studies of standard evidence-based medicine. We compared the gold standard papers used in the original case studies and articles identified by the citation-based approach. The results showed that gold standard papers and highly cited papers with high co-citation centrality are closed related. The strengths and limitations of our approach are discussed. We concluded that it is more effective and reliable to use our visualization tool to extract evidence to support clinicians' decision making than the traditional EBM approach.

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  • Yunan Chen & Chaomai Chen, 2005. "Discovering Clinical Evidence For Evidence-Based Medicine," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Suliman Hawamdeh (ed.), Knowledge Management Nurturing Culture, Innovation, and Technology, chapter 21, pages 247-259, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789812701527_0021
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