The medline UK filter: development and validation of a geographic search filter to retrieve research about the UK from OVID medline

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda Ayiku ◽  
Paul Levay ◽  
Tom Hudson ◽  
Jenny Craven ◽  
Elizabeth Barrett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Search Filter ◽  
Ovid Medline ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Development And Validation

scholarly journals Development and validation of search filters to find articles on palliative care in bibliographic databases

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 470-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith AC Rietjens ◽  
Wichor M Bramer ◽  
Eric CT Geijteman ◽  
Agnes van der Heide ◽  
Wendy H Oldenmenger
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Cochrane Library ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Search Filter ◽  
Ovid Medline ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Literature Searches ◽  
Search Filters ◽  
Validation Set ◽  
Development And Validation

Background: Healthcare professionals and researchers in the field of palliative care often have difficulties finding relevant articles in online databases. Standardized search filters may help improve the efficiency and quality of such searches, but prior developed filters showed only moderate performance. Aim: To develop and validate a specific search filter and a sensitive search filter for the field of palliative care. Design: We used a novel, objective method for search filter development. First, we created a gold standard set. This set was split into three groups: term identification, filter development, and filter validation set. After creating the filters in PubMed, we translated the filters into search filters for Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, PsychINFO, and Cochrane Library. We calculated specificity, sensitivity and precision of both filters. Results: The specific filter had a specificity of 97.4%, a sensitivity of 93.7%, and a precision of 45%. The sensitive filter had a sensitivity of 99.6%, a specificity of 92.5%, and a precision of 5%. Conclusion: Our search filters can support literature searches in the field of palliative care. Our specific filter retrieves 93.7% of relevant articles, while 45% of the retrieved articles are relevant. This filter can be used to find answers to questions when time is limited. Our sensitive filter finds 99.6% of all relevant articles and may, for instance, help conducting systematic reviews. Both filters perform better than prior developed search filters in the field of palliative care.

scholarly journals Convolutional Neural Network-Based Clinical Predictors of Oral Dysplasia: Class Activation Map Analysis of Deep Learning Results

Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1291
Author(s):  
Seda Camalan ◽  
Hanya Mahmood ◽  
Hamidullah Binol ◽  
Anna Luiza Damaceno Araújo ◽  
Alan Roger Santos-Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Validation ◽  
Clinical Predictors ◽  
Oral Dysplasia ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Map Analysis ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Fold Cross Validation ◽  
Activation Map

Oral cancer/oral squamous cell carcinoma is among the top ten most common cancers globally, with over 500,000 new cases and 350,000 associated deaths every year worldwide. There is a critical need for objective, novel technologies that facilitate early, accurate diagnosis. For this purpose, we have developed a method to classify images as “suspicious” and “normal” by performing transfer learning on Inception-ResNet-V2 and generated automated heat maps to highlight the region of the images most likely to be involved in decision making. We have tested the developed method’s feasibility on two independent datasets of clinical photographic images of 30 and 24 patients from the UK and Brazil, respectively. Both 10-fold cross-validation and leave-one-patient-out validation methods were performed to test the system, achieving accuracies of 73.6% (±19%) and 90.9% (±12%), F1-scores of 97.9% and 87.2%, and precision values of 95.4% and 99.3% at recall values of 100.0% and 81.1% on these two respective cohorts. This study presents several novel findings and approaches, namely the development and validation of our methods on two datasets collected in different countries showing that using patches instead of the whole lesion image leads to better performance and analyzing which regions of the images are predictive of the classes using class activation map analysis.

scholarly journals Translation and validation of PubMed and Embase search filters for identification of systematic reviews, intervention studies, and observational studies in the field of first aid

2021 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Avau ◽  
Hans Van Remoortel ◽  
Emmy De Buck
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Observational Studies ◽  
Intervention Studies ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Search Filter ◽  
Filter Performance ◽  
Ovid Medline ◽  
Search Filters ◽  
Study Type ◽  
Evidence Summaries

Objective: The aim of this project was to validate search filters for systematic reviews, intervention studies, and observational studies translated from Ovid MEDLINE and Embase syntax and used for searches in PubMed and Embase.com during the development of evidence summaries supporting first aid guidelines. We aimed to achieve a balance among recall, specificity, precision, and number needed to read (NNR).Methods: Reference gold standards were constructed per study type derived from existing evidence summaries. Search filter performance was assessed through retrospective searches and measurement of relative recall, specificity, precision, and NNR when using the translated search filters. Where necessary, search filters were optimized. Adapted filters were validated in separate validation gold standards.Results: Search filters for systematic reviews and observational studies reached recall of ≥85% in both PubMed and Embase. Corresponding specificities for systematic review filters were ≥96% in both databases, with a precision of 9.7% (NNR 10) in PubMed and 5.4% (NNR 19) in Embase. For observational study filters, specificity, precision, and NNR were 68%, 2%, and 51 in PubMed and 47%, 0.8%, and 123 in Embase, respectively. These filters were considered sufficiently effective. Search filters for intervention studies reached a recall of 85% and 83% in PubMed and Embase, respectively. Optimization led to recall of ≥95% with specificity, precision, and NNR of 49%, 1.3%, and 79 in PubMed and 56%, 0.74%, and 136 in Embase, respectively.Conclusions: We report validated filters to search for systematic reviews, observational studies, and intervention studies in guideline projects in PubMed and Embase.com.

scholarly journals A review of the use of biological mesh products in modern UK surgical practice: a religious and cultural perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (8) ◽  
pp. 566-570
Author(s):  
RM Koshy ◽  
EG Kane ◽  
C Grocock
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Planning ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Religious Perspective ◽  
Ovid Medline ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk

Introduction The UK is an increasingly multicultural society. This change coincides with an increasing use of animal products in medicine and surgery and a change in the UK law of consent. The refusal of Jehovah’s Witnesses to accept blood products is well known, but the use of animal products in surgery is a neglected topic. As society becomes more diverse and medicine becomes ever more advanced, there is increasing potential for a mismatch between what is medically possible and what is acceptable from a religious perspective. Methods Surgical products were identified by searching the literature and contacting manufacturing companies. Literature was identified by using PubMed and OVID (MEDLINE). Religious views were established by contacting national bodies for each group. Findings The views of common UK religious groups and the constituent parts of biological meshes are summarised in tables intended to be used as a reference during clinical practice. On an elective basis, the Islamic, Hindu. Sikh and Jain leaders contacted had strong views on avoiding animal derived products. The Christian and Jewish leaders contacted did not. All religious leaders contacted accepted the use of mesh derived from human tissue. All products, including those of porcine and bovine origin, were acceptable to all leaders contacted if the procedure was performed to save life. The highlighting of this issue should prompt earlier consideration and discussion in the surgical planning and the consenting process with all final decisions taken by both the surgeon and the individual patient.

scholarly journals Glomerular disease search filters for Pubmed, Ovid Medline, and Embase: a development and validation study

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainslie M Hildebrand ◽  
Arthur V Iansavichus ◽  
Christopher WC Lee ◽  
R Brian Haynes ◽  
Nancy L Wilczynski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Validation Study ◽  
Glomerular Disease ◽  
Ovid Medline ◽  
Search Filters ◽  
Development And Validation

scholarly journals Integrated Care Search: Development and validation of a PubMed search filter for retrieving the integrated care research evidence

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raechel A. Damarell ◽  
Suzanne Lewis ◽  
Camilla Trenerry ◽  
Jennifer J. Tieman
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Care ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Standard Test ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Search Filter ◽  
Filter Performance ◽  
Search Filters ◽  
Development And Validation

Abstract Background Integrated care is an increasingly important principle for organising healthcare. Integrated care models show promise in reducing resource wastage and service fragmentation whilst improving the accessibility, patient-centredness and quality of care for patients. Those needing reliable access to the growing research evidence base for integrated care can be frustrated by search challenges reflective of the topic's complexity. The aim of this study is to report the empirical development and validation of two search filters for rapid and effective retrieval of integrated care evidence in PubMed. One filter is optimised for recall and the other for precision.Methods An Expert Advisory Group comprising international integrated care experts guided the study. A gold standard test set of citations was formed from screening Handbook Integrated Care chapter references for relevance. This set was divided into a Term Identification Set (20%) for determining candidate terms using frequency analysis; a Filter Development Set (40%) for testing performance of term combinations; and a Filter Validation Set (40%) reserved for confirming final filter performance. In developing the high recall filter, recall was steadily increased while maintaining precision at ≥ 50%. Similarly, the high precision filter sought to maximise precision while keeping recall ≥ 50%. For each term combination tested, an approximation of precision was obtained by reviewing the first 100 citations retrieved in Medline for relevance.Results The gold standard set comprised 534 citations. The search filter optimised for recall ('Broad Integrated Care Search') achieved 86.0%-88.3% recall with corresponding low precision (47%-53%). The search filter optimised for precise searching ('Narrow Integrated Care Search') demonstrated precision of 73%-95% with recall reduced to between 55.9% and 59.8%. These filters are now available as one-click URL hyperlinks in the website of International Foundation for Integrated Care.Conclusions The Broad and Narrow Integrated Care Search filters provide potential users, such as policy makers and researchers, seamless, reliable and ongoing access to integrated care evidence for decision making. These filters were developed according to a rigorous and transparent methodology designed to circumvent the challenges of information retrieval posed by this complex, multifaceted topic.

Comments on the Sixth Report of the Animal Welfare Advisory Committee

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-212
Author(s):  
Sylvia Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
Defence Research ◽  
Animal Use ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
The Three Rs

The Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (AWAC) was established in July 1996, to consider the care, welfare and use of animals involved in procedures for defence research purposes at Defence and Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) establishments in the UK. Two of the objectives of AWAC are to examine the broad trends in animal use at DERA establishments, and to implement and audit the application of the Three Rs principle. AWAC's sixth report addressed the period from 31 October 2000 to 28 February 2002. The statistics of animal use within the report are briefly examined, and some of the actions undertaken by defence research establishments to facilitate the application of the Three Rs are highlighted. It is recommended that, if possible (subject to security constraints), figures detailing the severity of the procedures undertaken should be included in future issues of the report, in order to provide a more-detailed account. It is concluded that Defence Science and Technology Laboratory establishments have made a contribution to the Three Rs, and that other establishments may be able to incorporate some of their actions into their own research programmes. There was an overall 36% increase in the number of procedures carried out by defence research establishments between 1995 and 2000, from 8,900 to 12,065. This probably reflects alterations in the research programme, which is, in turn, decided primarily by the Ministry of Defence's customers and the progress made with previous research programmes. It is therefore recommended that the UK Government allocates significantly more financial resources for the development and validation of alternatives, in order to maximise the potential for achieving the Three Rs in defence research, and to complement the existing initiatives within the defence research industry.

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