The past decade has witnessed the modern advances of high-throughput technology and
rapid growth of research capacity in producing large-scale biological data, both of which …

Objective To compare the performance of the Concurrent (CTA) and Retrospective (RTA)
Think Aloud method and to assess their value in a formative usability evaluation of an …

Background Understanding research activity within any given biomedical field is important.
Search outputs generated by MEDLINE/PubMed are not well classified and require lengthy …

Background: Type 2 diabetes has increased in prevalence among youth, paralleling the
increase in pediatric obesity. Helping youth achieve energy balance by changing diet and …

Background: PubMed is the largest biomedical bibliographic information source on the
Internet. PubMed has been considered one of the most important and reliable sources of up …

This lively handbook on the fundamentals of Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) leads the
reader, step by step, through a process that proceeds from a patient's medical history, via …

Background The practice of evidence-based medicine requires efficient biomedical literature
search such as PubMed/MEDLINE. Retrieval performance relies highly on the efficient use …

The PubMed database offers an extensive set of publication data that can be useful, yet
inherently complex to use without automated computational techniques. Data repositories …

Purpose Systematic reviews of biomedical literature are used to inform patient treatment. Yet
the acquisition of relevant literature is proving increasingly challenging due to the large …

Background The project aims to create an alternative search interface for MEDLINE/PubMed
that may provide assistance to the novice user and added convenience to the advanced …