An International Award – thanks to the support & good wishes from ALL of you!

An International Award – thanks to the support & good wishes from ALL of you!

Coinciding with the launch of the blog, I am delighted to share some great news with all of you!  I have won an international award, which has been established this year and I am a proud "first winner". A huge big thanks to all of you on behalf of my QMed Team (this award is as much theirs for all their behind the scenes work) and from me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Announcement: The International Clinical Librarian Conference Organising Committee are proud to announce that Ms. Vasumathi Sriganesh is the winner of the International Clinical Librarian Conference Evidence into Practice Award for 2013.    …
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Courses conducted by the Dept of Biostatistics, CMC Vellore

Courses conducted by the Dept of Biostatistics, CMC Vellore

The Department of Biostatistics at Christian Medical College, Vellore has been actively involved in data management, statistical analysis, report writing and training in collaboration with several departments of the institution and pharmaceutical companies. The Biostatistics Resource and Training Center (BRTC) works with governmental and non-governmental organizations, providing advisory and training services. This resource center also organizes workshops on recent developments in Biostatistics with the help of visiting faculties from abroad. More details
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A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log

A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log

Mosa AS, Yoo I. A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2013 Jan 9;13:8. Note from QMed: “Search tags” in PubMed are methods by which a user could ask for a search term to be (compulsorily) present  in the title or as a “MeSH term” (which means the article is “about” that term, whether the search term is present in the title or abstract or not). There are several search tags that can be used in PubMed to refine searches. This article is extremely unusual…
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