Analysis of evidence appraisals for interventional studies in family medicine using an informatics approach.

ABSTRACT: This study reports the first assessment of published comments in the family medicine literature using structured codes, which produced commentary annotations that will be the foundation of a knowledge base of appraisals of family medicine trials. Evidence appraisal occurs in a variety of formats and serves to shed light on the quality of research. However, scientific discourse generally and evidence appraisal in particular has not itself been analyzed for insights. A search strategy was devised to identify all journal comments indexed in PubMed linked to controlled intervention studies published in a recent 15-year period in major family medicine journals. A previously developed structured representation in the form of a list of appraisal concepts was used to formally annotate and categori

SUBMITTER: Sahin AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6713885 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature