Automatic retrieval of current evidence to support update of bibliography in clinical guidelines

作者：Iruetaguena A^*; Garcia Adeva J J; Pikatza J M; Segundo U; Buenestado D; Barrena R

来源：Expert Systems with Applications, 2013, 40(6): 2081-2091.

DOI：10.1016/j.eswa.2012.10.015

• Clinical guidelines
• Evidence-based medicine
• Bibliometrics Information retrieval
• Literature-based discovery

This paper reports on a system developed to support medical experts in the process of updating clinical guidelines by automatically suggesting new articles suitable to the domain under consideration. It follows a comprehensive process based on several consecutive steps in order to (i) identify which articles from the current guideline are eligible to be updated; (ii) retrieve and filter new related articles from MEDUNE; and (iii) select the most relevant resulting articles by applying a scoring algorithm. Extensive validation is based on a set of experiments on 40 guidelines from multiple medical domains. The analysis of results shows a promising prospect as indicated by recall values greater than 90%.

• 出版日期2013-5