QMed’s blog posts

QMed started its blog in 2012. Over the years we went through different evolutions. We noticed that often the matter which we wish to share with our learning audience and our donors had lots in common. We tried merging our stories in our regular communications. But, we still felt that we needed our blogs  section and now we start them all over again! We will start with one post every month - in the third week. Happy reading
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Abstrackr: Streamline Your Systematic Reviews

Abstrackr: Streamline Your Systematic Reviews

Conducting systematic reviews can be a daunting task, especially when faced with thousands of citations. Abstrackr, developed by Brown University's Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, offers a free, open-source solution to simplify this process. Designed to semi-automate the citation screening phase, Abstrackr leverages machine learning to predict the relevance of studies based on titles and abstracts, significantly reducing the manual workload. Key Features of Abstrackr AI-Powered Recommendations: Utilize machine learning algorithms to identify and prioritize relevant citations, allowing researchers to focus on the most pertinent studies. Collaborative Screening: Invite team members to participate in the screening process, facilitating efficient…
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Rules, flexibility and empowerment

Rules, flexibility and empowerment

Rules are good for every organization. They ensure that most activities are done within a framework. They serve as a guide to all. However, in several smaller organizations, one should see how rules can be flexed (within a right framework and context) and how empowerment and training is important for this. When this is not done, a mid-level / junior employee is the one that usually faces the wrath of customers / visitors / clients. And importantly the clients then talk ill of the organization as a whole. In a way they are right. The employee concerned is doing what…
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AnswerThis.org — A Smart Add-On to Systematic Searching!

Finding and organizing the right research papers can often take hours — sometimes days. What if you had an assistant that could do part of this for you: finding relevant studies, summarizing them, and even giving you proper citations? That’s what AnswerThis.org (also accessible via answerthis.io) does. It’s an AI-powered research assistant that helps you ask a question or describe a topic — and then gives you a detailed, referenced summary built from scholarly papers. Using AnswerThis, you can: Get literature summaries with citations Identify research gaps — areas that need more study Save or upload papers in your own…
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