SUMSearch: bibliography

1. Booth A, O'Rourke A. Resource Corner: SUMSearch and PubMed: 2 Internet-based evidence-based medicine tools. ACP Journal Club. 2000;132:A16

2. Crom V. SUMSearch. J Med Libr Assoc. 2007 October; 95(4): 471–473. PMCID: PMC2000788

1. Haase A, Follmann M, Skipka G, Kirchner H (2007) Developing search strategies for clinical practice guidelines in SUMSearch and Google Scholar and assessing their retrieval performance. BMC Med Res Methodol 7 ():28. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-7-28 PMID: 17603909

Extract: "SUMSearch is a useful tool to swiftly gain an overview of available CPGs. Its retrieval performance is superior to that of Google Scholar, where a search is more time consuming, as substantially more retrievals have to be reviewed to detect one relevant CPG. In both search engines, the CPG term "guideline" should be used to obtain a comprehensive overview of CPGs, and the term "practice guideline" should be used if a less time consuming approach for the detection of CPGs is desired."

2. Alper BS, Stevermer JJ, White DS, Ewigman BG (2001) Answering family physicians' clinical questions using electronic medical databases. J Fam Pract 50 (11):960-5. PMID: 11711012

3. Badgett RG, Paukert JL, Levy LS (2001) Teaching clinical informatics to third-year medical students: negative results from two controlled trials. BMC Med Educ 1 ():3. PMID: 11532204

Extract: "None of our interventions affected searching habits. Even with automated searching, students report low satisfaction with search speed. We are concerned that students using current strategies for seeking medical evidence will be less likely to seek and appraise original studies when they enter medical practice and have less time."

4. Observations On How Clinicians Use SUMSearch (1/2000). Badgett RG, Mulrow CD, Levy LS, Arterburn J. Observations on how clinicians use SUMSearch. J Gen Intern Med 2000;15(supplem 1):99.

Summary: Failed searches: A new warning provided by SUMSearch has reduced the above problem. Use of the MeSH browser is now recorded and shows use of the browser is associated with successful searches. How often do searchers click documents: Searchers click links to documents in about 50% of searches that retrieve citations (this is similar to other studies on how often literature searches effect patient care)

5. Predictors of successful searches for medical evidence by clinicians (12/2000). Badgett RG, Mulrow CD, Levy LS.

Summary: Searches with more than two words within a single search term are more likely to fail