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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eHealth Literacy Among College Students: A Systematic Review With Implications for eHealth Education

eHealth Literacy Among College Students: A Systematic Review With Implications for eHealth Education

Stellefson M et al eHealth Literacy Among College Students: A Systematic Review With Implications for eHealth Education J Med Internet Res. 2011 Dec 1;13(4):e102 In this article, the authors studied six articles and one doctoral dissertation to find out the eHealth literacy of college students - that is - their capability to locate, use and evaluate electronically available health information. They observed that although college students are comfortable with using the Internet to find health information, their eHealth literacy skills are not upto the mark. They feel that college students, especially in the health and medical professions, need specialized training…
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A case study for teaching information literacy skills

A case study for teaching information literacy skills

Kingsley KV, Kingsley K. A case study for teaching information literacy skills  BMC Med Educ. 2009 Jan 29;9:7. The authors specifically describe something that we have been encountering all the time. Older health professionals very often think that younger ones "know it all" when it comes to using computers. In this paper, the finding is that while young professionals are very comfortable with computers, information literacy is a lacuna, and training in this area is vital for inclusion in the curriculum. Appeared in QMedCONNECT, Vol 2, Issue 2, Feb 2009
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