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Evaluating the Evidence: Creation of Gold Standard Practices for Searching and Filtering the Biomedical Literature

Rebecca N. Jerome1, MLIS; Kimbra Wilder Gish1, MS; Taneya Y. Koonce2, MSLS; Nunzia B. Giuse1, MD, MLS.

1 Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2 Associate Fellow, National Library of Medicine


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Table of Contents

Evaluating the Evidence: Creation of Gold Standard Practices for Searching and Filtering the Biomedical Literature

Outline

Clinical Informatics Consult Service (CICS)

Complex questions

After extensive literature searching, CICS librarians:

Organizational culture

Team creation of gold standard searching and filtering practices

Purpose

Methodology: Assessing search strategies

Methodology: Assessing filtering

Results: Examining retrieval by individual search strategies

Results: Filtering of key items

Future directions: In-depth analysis

Conclusions

 
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