Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Vortal



Avresource available to those who are involved in doing the literature search for a health technology assessment, systematic review, or other larger scale search.  The article describes a new free access website (http://vortal.htai.org/?q=sure-info) for use by information specialists.  The article describing the new site is: Keeping up to date with information retrieval research: Summarized Research in Information Retrieval (SuRe Info) by Sari Ormstad and Jaana Isojarvi in the Journal of EAHIL volume 9 issue 2; June 2013 pages 17-19.   http://www.eahil.eu/journal/journal_2013_vol9_n2.pdf

Duplicate results in Ovid Medline


..dedup # command (where # is the line number of the results you want de-duplicated) can remove duplicates directly in Medline.

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Free book to download - Testing Treatments 2nd Ed


http://www.testingtreatments.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/TT_2ndEd_English_17oct2011.pdf

Testing Treatments is a thought-provoking, and sometimes horrifying, look at the need for more research and better quality research to guide treatment decisions.

This is the website upon which the book is based: http://www.testingtreatments.org

Wednesday, April 17, 2013