Vasumathi Sriganesh, Author at QMed Knowledge Foundation

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Literature searching and the ideal researcher

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A student, academician or a practitioner of any health sciences stream often needs to search the literature. An ideal researcher should spend a small percentage of time in this activity, and much more on the main research and writing. What is the profile of an ideal researcher in this context? …

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Twenty years since of PubMed access and are our health professionals “information savvy”

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Around 20 years ago, the "Indian Express" had a special publication called "Web Vision". In the January 1998 issue, they had featured me in a column called "Web Spirit", in an article - "Internet throws up new job definitions". I had a copy of this issue, but it had at…

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Is Abstract = Full Text?

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Scoping Review of Comparisons between Abstracts and Full Reports in Primary Biomedical Research. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 2017 Dec;17(1):181. Are you among those people who decide to cite a paper by reading only its Abstract? If yes, then you need to think again. The possibility is you may miss some…

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Guest post: Dr Priyadarshini Kulkarni, Palliative Care Physician

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I am a Palliative Care physician. I ventured to do a part time MSc in Palliative Care, with an International University. One element of this program was to write a systematic review on a topic as part of the thesis fulfillment. I had never done one before. And time was…

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QMed collaborates with the Campbell Collaboration!

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Hello friends! A Very Happy New Year to all.This year, I hope to write more regularly and share QMed's developments and also my own thoughts and ideas for all of you. I am happy to start the year, with an announcement. QMed's vision is to see that Evidence Based Practice…

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Literature searching and the ideal researcher

Twenty years since of PubMed access and are our health professionals “information savvy”

Is Abstract = Full Text?

Guest post: Dr Priyadarshini Kulkarni, Palliative Care Physician

QMed collaborates with the Campbell Collaboration!

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