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May 23, 2005 [posted] | ||
Clinical Prediction Guides Added to PubMed® Clinical Queries | ||
new clinical study category called Clinical Prediction Guides has been added to the PubMed Clinical Queries page. (See Figure 1.) Clinical Prediction Guides pertain to the prediction of some aspect of a disease or condition and have been advocated as a mechanism for enhancing clinical judgement. Clinical prediction studies develop or validate rules, guides, indexes, equations, scales, scores or models to predict a diagnosis, prognosis, risk (etiology), therapeutic response, therapeutic drug level or clinical outcome. An example of a clinical prediction guide is the Ottawa ankle rule. Can Fam Physician. 1996 Mar;42:478-80.
The search strategies (broad and narrow scope) for this category have been developed by Wong SS, et al., as described in the following publication: Developing optimal search strategies for detecting sound clinical prediction studies in MEDLINE. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003;:728-32. PMID: 14728269
By Ione Auston Auston I. Clinical Prediction Guides Added to PubMed® Clinical Queries. NLM Tech Bull. 2005 May-Jun;(344):e7. |