matthias-samwald / find-me-evidence

An open-source medical search engine
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results from very specific clinical studies reported in PubMed abstracts were returned first #20

Open gpetz opened 10 years ago

gpetz commented 10 years ago

"A common reason for failure of both FindMeEvidence and TRIP database was that for some general queries, very specific results – such as results from very specific clinical studies reported in PubMed abstracts – were returned first. Although users can potentially exclude these specific results by selecting an appropriate search facet, this problem should be better addressed in future versions of the software."

from

M. Samwald and A. Hanbury, “An open-source, mobile-friendly search engine for public medical knowledge,” Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 205, pp. 358–362, 2014.