Automating the process of critical appraisal and assessing the strength of evidence with information extraction technology.

Background Critical appraisal, one of the most crucial steps in the practice of evidence-based medicine, is expertise-dependent and time-consuming. The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate an automated text-mining system that could determine the evidence level provided by a medical ar...

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Published in:Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 832 - 839
Main Authors: Lin, Jou-Wei, Chang, Chia-Hsuin, Lin, Ming-Wei, Ebell, Mark H., Chiang, Jung-Hsien
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Aug2011
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