Quantitative Evaluation of Recall and Precision of CAT Crawler, a Search Engine Specialized on Retrieval of Critically Appraised Topics

Topics:
Healthcare Services
Tags:
Benefits,
Software,
Search Engine,
Productivity,
Physician,
Human Resources,
Healthcare,
Enterprise Software,
Critically Appraised Topic,
BioMed Central,
...
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BioMed Central

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Overview: Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) are a useful tool that helps physicians to make clinical decisions as the healthcare moves towards the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). A web-based application, namely the CAT Crawler, was developed by Singapore's Bioinformatics Institute to allow physicians to adequately access available appraised topics on the Internet. The results demonstrate the validity of the CAT Crawler meta-search engine approach. The improved precision due to inherent filters underlines the practical usefulness of this tool for clinicians.

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Format: PDF | Size: 259KB | Date: Dec 2004 | Pages: 7


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