Metadata for Evidence Based Medicine resources
DCMI '01 Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001
Metadata: For Information Management and Retrieval (Become an Expert)
Metadata: For Information Management and Retrieval (Become an Expert)
A statistical metadata model for clinical trials' data management
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
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To help clinicians find better evidence, a metadata schema for Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is developed. Dublin Core metadata standard (DC) was adopted to help build a metadata schema. An experimental system was developed to test the validity of the metadata and full text papers of clinical therapy on stomach ulcer extracted using PubMed. An EBM metadata schema was developed. Citations were created from original papers using the metadata schema. Three clinicians evaluated papers by utilizing metadata and full texts respectively. Agreement of evaluation was analyzed, and the result on weighted kappa was 0.55 (95%CI, 0.42---0.67). It reveals that there is moderate agreement between evaluation of metadata citations and full texts. It is possible to use the metadata to select papers before reading the full texts. A further study should be made to prove the applicability of the metadata in the real world setting.