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Evaluation of a Tool to Enhance Searching for Useful Medical Information on the Internet
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Author(s):
David Parry (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
Copyright:
2008
Pages:
14
Source title:
Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics: Research and Practices
Source Author(s)/Editor(s):
Joseph Tan
(McMaster University, Canada)
DOI:
10.4018/978-1-59904-690-7.ch016
Keywords:
Health Information Systems
/
Medical Information Science Reference
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Medicine & Healthcare
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Abstract
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) requires appropriate information to be available to clinicians at the point of care. Electronic sources of information may fulfill this need but require a high level of skill to use successfully. This chapter describes the rationale and initial testing of a system to allow collaborative searching and ontology construction for professional groups in the health sector. The approach is based around the use of a browser using a fuzzy ontology based on the National library of medicine (NLM) unified medical language system (UMLS). The results suggest that a tool that can assist users in finding information by recording their preferences and preferred meaning of text words can be usable by healthcare professionals. This approach may provide high-quality information for professionals in the future.
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