How Search Skills Helped an Anesthesiologist Save a Patient’s Limb

How Search Skills Helped an Anesthesiologist Save a Patient’s Limb

In this guest post, we share a powerful real-life story from Dr. Jitendra Bapat, an anesthesiologist to show how "Search Skills" helped save a patient's limb. Dr Bapat had used the PubMed search skills he learned from QMed to find a crucial answer to treat his patient. He describes this as an invaluable experience. Incidentally this also led to his resident presenting this case study at a conference, and winning a prize I am Dr. Jitu Bapat, an anesthesiologist, and I would like to share how QMed’s training directly helped me in patient care. During an emergency duty, I received…
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AnswerThis.org — A Smart Add-On to Systematic Searching!

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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A little known PubMed search feature

A little known PubMed search feature

At the end of 2022 PubMed launched the "Proximity operator" feature. At the end of 2023, it would not be surprising to find that no one in India (or only a few) is aware of this. Proximity operators - available in most databases that we have to pay for, make searching much more relevant, when we search for terms like "Under developed countries". When we search these with the tags [ti] or [tiab], we are searching for the term as a phrase. When we search them with a proximity operator, then we are searching for the terms being near each…
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Online Searching: Truncation & Filter Errors

Online Searching: Truncation & Filter Errors

Can you believe that many people use truncation and filters wrongly while doing online searching? You may not. But it is happening all the time!  From January 2022, QMed has been hosting mini webinars every Tuesday and Friday, with two objectives: Promoting awareness of our work and our e-learning courses Motivating those who have enrolled in our courses to finish them In these webinars, in every session we cover a specific topic. And we teach a little about the topic. More importantly point out how much we cover in our courses. And that way, people know what they miss, if…
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Access alone is not enough. Train everybody

Access alone is not enough. Train everybody

Dr GN is a faculty in a medical college. He is registered for QMedCourses and approached me with a request for help. He is studying for an additional degree in an institution in the UK and has to write a systematic review as part of the program. He said that the requirement was that he had to do it all by himself and could not get a team to work with him. While this is unusual as systematic reviews are ideally done by a team (to reduce bias), in this case the objective of solo working is to learn every…
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