| dc.creator | Caro-Rojas,Rosa Ángela | |
| dc.creator | Eslava-Schmalbach,Javier H. | |
| dc.date | 2005-07-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-25T15:00:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-25T15:00:30Z | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0124-00642005000200009 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8823466 | |
| dc.description | OBJECTIVES: To compare the information obtained from the Medline database using Internet commercial search engines with that obtained from a compact disc (Medline-CD). METHODS: An agreement study was carried out based on 101 clinical scenarios provided by specialists in internal medicine, pharmacy, gynaecology-obstetrics, surgery and paediatrics. 175 search strategies were employed using the connector AND plus text within quotation marks. The search was limited to 1991-1999. Internet search-engines were selected by common criteria. Identical search strategies were independently applied to and masked from Internet search engines, as well as the Medline-CD. RESULTS: 3,488 articles were obtained using 129 search strategies. Agreement with the Medline-CD was 54% for PubMed, 57% for Gateway, 54% for Medscape and 65% for BioMedNet. The highest agreement rate for a given speciality (paediatrics) was 78,1% for BioMedNet, having greater -/- than +/+ agreement. CONCLUSIONS: Even though free access to Medline has encouraged the boom and growth of evidence-based medicine, these results must be considered within the context of which search engine was selected for doing the searches. The internet search engines studied showed a poor agreement with the Medline-CD, the rate of agreement differing according to speciality, thus significantly affecting searches and their reproducibility. Software designed for conducting Medline database searches, including the Medline-CD, must be standardised and validated. | |
| dc.format | text/html | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Instituto de Salud Publica, Facultad de Medicina - Universidad Nacional de Colombia | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.source | Revista de Salud Pública v.7 n.2 2005 | |
| dc.subject | Medline | |
| dc.subject | Databases | |
| dc.subject | PubMed | |
| dc.subject | reproducibility of results | |
| dc.subject | information storage and retrieval | |
| dc.subject | evidence-based medicine | |
| dc.title | Agreement between Medline searches using the Medline-CD-Rom and Internet PubMed, BioMedNet, Medscape and Gateway search-engines | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
