INFORUM 2011

COR: Web Tool for Clinical Evidence Retrieval in Cardiology

Author

Vendula Papíková, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - Institute of Computer Science - Centre of Biomedical Informatics, Czech Republic

Co-authors

Miroslav Zvolský, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - Institute of Computer Science - Centre of Biomedical Informatics, Czech Republic

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Abstract

Research-based medical evidence is generated at an exponential rate, but it is not readily available to clinicians yet. Besides that clinical practitioners lack the time needed to search for it and lack the skills needed to identify it, appraise it and apply it in clinical decision-making. All that causes the need for new information resources reaching the „3Rs“ of evidence-based communication, i.e. reliability, relevance and readability.

This work describes newly developed web application aimed to implement the mentioned features to evidence-based information resource in the field of cardiology. Selected entries from database PubMed are utilized as the source of trustworthy evidence. The work was partly supported by the project 1M06014 of the Ministry of Education CR and the research plan AV0Z10300504.

Author's professional CV

Vendula Papikova, MD, PhD, graduated at the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University at Prague. In 1996 she achieved specialization from internal medicine and in 2000 from clinical chemistry. In 2009 she defended her doctoral thesis in the field of Information Science. She worked as physician at several faculty hospitals and as assistant professor at 2nd Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry (nowadays Institute of Biochemistry and Experimental Oncology) of the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. In years 1997 – 1999 she worked as pharmacovigilance and scientific medical information adviser in pharmaceutical company Ferring-Léčiva. In 2001 she passed short time educational internship focused on a diagnostics of inborn errors of metabolism and on evidence-based medicine. Since 2006 till present she works at Department of Medical Informatics and at Centre of Biomedical Informatics, Institute of Computer Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.