Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5121722 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2017 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

•The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Evidence-based Practice Center program recently published a methods white paper on the effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov web site which focused on a preliminary exploration of the use of text-mining in evidence synthesis.•Text mining and related tools of automation are likely to augment rather than displace current literature retrieval and information extraction tools at the present time.•The benefits of using a text-mining tool may be limited, in part, by the complexity and size of the relevant literature for a given topic (eg, text mining will likely work better for clinical indication-drug topics rather than complex health services topics).•Key performance characteristics of text-mining tools should include reliability and transparency of computational methods, ease of use, and replicable results compatible with tools and workflows currently in use.

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