Tim Churches wrote:
Well, if one is flogging evidence-based medicine products, I think that
one's advertising and promotional material needs to be evidence-based...
In this case, since the details of the cases and the exact search terms
used by the investigators are all provided (see
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/data/bmj.39003.640567.AE/DC1/1) it is but an hour
or two's work to plug those search terms into HCN's MD Reference Tool
product and see what the results are, using methods as described in the
BMJ paper. Perhaps someone with access to the HCN MD Reference Tool
product might like to do this little study for them, and to publish the
results here, and/or submit the results as a letter to the Editor of the
MJA (I'm happy to help, but don't have access to the HCN products in
question)?
And can also consider publishing it in the:
electronic Journal of Health Informatics (sic - no upper case in electronic)
http://ejhi.net/ojs/index.php/ejhi
which describes itself:
"The electronic Journal of Health Informatics is an international
journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the
advancement of Health Informatics and information technology in
healthcare. It is a journal for all health professions and
informaticians of all levels.
eJHI is a truly open access journal - it provides open access both for
authors (i.e. no publication fee or page charges) and for readers (i.e.
free access to all papers). Also see our flyer for details.
To prepare and submit a paper please go to Information for Authors. Also
see our
* general CALL FOR PAPERS and
* a CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special Issue on Security and Privacy
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