Oliver Frank wrote: > 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.
Hmm, maybe, but it is not indexed by Pubmed or MEDLINE (try searching for it at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=journals ) although Google Scholar does know about it. I think that a letter to the MJA editor would a) be published and b) get wider readership (since the MJA is also open access). Nevertheless, things like eJHI should be supported, if they are, in fact, resourced adequately and are hence likely to grow and persist beyond the initial enthusiasm stage. That is not entirely clear, I must say, as most of the people behind eJHI seem to be health informatics academics who aren't exactly rushing to publish their own papers in it (probably because publication in it doesn't get them many DEST (Australian Govt Dept of Education, Science and Technology) brownie points for their faculty reviews). There are several other good open access journals for health informatics and related topics, but all levy fairly substantial author charges to cover their costs, presumably in a sustainable manner: http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedinformdecismak/ http://www.plosone.org (rather new, but looks promising if they can make their web site perform better) http://www.jmir.org/ (oldest of such journals by far) But a letter to the MJA costs nothing (well, AMA members foot the bill) and if published can be read by all god's children for free. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
