| Abstract |
In this student project (Roelof Reinders) a method is developed for finding relevant evidence for supporting the medical guideline updating process. Based on the recommendations of an evidence-based medical guideline and their corresponding evidence queries are constructed for searching in PubMed for identifying potential new or improved evidence. We performed a feasibility study on a set of old recommendations, and compared the output to evidence for a newer version. The system succeeded in finding goal articles for 11 out of 16 recommendations, but in total, only 20 out of 71 articles were retrieved. Our ranking method for most relevant articles worked well for small result sets, but for large data sets it failed to rank the goal articles in the top 25 results. |